What is "outcropping"

Usage examples of "outcropping".

They had climbed swiftly from the Wye Valley at Litton Mill through the trees that lined the old railway, then out on to the bare hillside where even sheep preferred not to scramble among the limestone outcroppings.

He assumed that the polyhedral outcroppings beside which many Tholians perched were computer system interfaces.

Fifteen paces on, they stumbled into an outcropping of quartzite or some other crystalline mineral that resisted the erosive wind.

I am skipping on my back toward an outcropping of rock, my chair lazily spinning me in counterclockwise direction as my chair back bounces, bounces, bounces toward the stone.

It was not until perhaps an hour after dark that the vehicle finally slowed, coming to rest on a flat outcropping of pale schist.

These were Archaean rocks of the pre-Cambrian Shield which covered almost half Australia, outcropping in the Yilgarn Block, an area in the south-west that was about the size of Britain, and also in the smaller Pilbara Block, and continuing right through to the Centre, where the Shield was overlaid by sand and gravel.

He saw outcroppings of dark, flintlike rock sloping downward to a sere and sterile plain.

Ahead of her, presently, she saw an outcropping of dark, flintlike rock that sloped upward into what looked like a rugged crag rising among the trees.

There was a low outcropping of sandstone there on the east side of the hillcrest, which might give cover from chaos-fire, and the flanks and front of the hill were steep enough, and so covered by thornberries, that an easy and swift charge was not possible.

I mentally gave thanks that I had been forced to slow down to a relative crawl by a thicket of the black mushroomlike outcroppings.

There was some coarse brown-black sand, and outcroppings of shale, and tumbles of old seaworn rock.

As Kate half walked, half allowed gravity do the job, she encountered a narrow shelflike outcropping.

Chapter 87 WE CLUSTERED TOGETHER on the shelflike summit of a rocky outcropping.

Emala to hide amid the boulders for now, Leia and Han angled up the dusty slope to within a few paces of the crest, then crept over to an outcropping of tilted slabstone where they could cross the ridge without presenting an obvious silhouette.

The first drops of rain hit the leaves before Telyn indicated that ahead there was a rock outcropping where they might shelter.