An outcrop often serves as a distinctive feature in landscapes, like a natural landmark.

Natural Landmark

Outcrops provide valuable information for geological studies and are associated with scientific research.

Geological Study

The term emphasizes parts of Earth's crust that are visible without digging or diving.

Visibility Matters

When 'outcrop' is used as a verb, it conveys the action of rock emerging at Earth's surface.

Emerging Surfaces

The verb implies a natural process that exposes rock formations over time, such as erosion.

Revealing Processes

Use the verb 'outcrop' to describe the point where underground formations become visible.

Visible Transition

 this is a pile of wombat poo on a rocky outcrop. Imagine that okay, so there's the poo right, you be the rock there, right now imagine I'm another wombat and I'm coming along and I'm accidentally knocking your poo or your own wombat knocking the poo it doesn't roll because it's

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 many inscriptions memorializing the dead and recording local histories have been deciphered— along with some containing magical incantations. The Ramsund runes in Sweden are carved on a rocky outcrop beside a bridge for travelers passing over swampy ground.

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 the bottom middle of this picture, you see a little pebble and behind it is a protrusion going back under the sand into the rock outcrop, or into the rock face. The little pebble and then this protrusion. That pebble protected all that rock behind it

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 water and whales had disappeared sudden they have done on me that should have bones in it there should be animals preserved in that sediment too so I went over to the base of the first outcrop got down on my hands and knees and there were bones all

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 cameras see the world at ground level looking backward and forward opportunity went right to work and immediately made a series of startling discoveries first tiny spheres littering the ground and embedded in the outcrop like blueberries

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 my name is chahui patoli i am a wildlife cameraman but i'm also a music producer he had been out in the serengeti filming a documentary when he came across this ancient musical instrument we walked up to this outcrop which has this

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 this outcrop of red sediments is the actual site where a partial skeleton of Spinosaurus was found let's see if we can find something new I never fully understood the concept of deep time until I found an ancient piece of

Dino Hunter Digs for...

 outcrop while she hunts when we met almonds Cubs they were just out of the den just beginning to discover the world as they get older it's nonstop play and their play is full of the moves they'll

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 shallow crater at JPL they waited for the first pictures as opportunity emerged from its protective shell we open our eyes and there's this astounding outcrop a

Mars Rover: Opportunity...

 Never before have I encountered so many sharks on a single coral outcrop. Capturing and sharing moments like this --