What is "outcrops"

Usage examples of "outcrops".

The weak ones had quickly died, leaving their bones to litter the beaches and rocky outcrops, like the bones of sea lions and iguanas and albatrosses.

The mountains closed in around us, monstrous white shapes scarred here and there by black outcrops of wind-torn rock.

We took two horses and cantered along the shores of the lake, below the buttress and across the rock outcrops to where the wire ran down the mountainside and into the water.

I remember seeing the cage sway violently and watching the brown flood fall with slow deliberation down the fault, frothing and spouting great gouts of white as it thundered against ledges and outcrops, smashing away great sections of the rock face with its force, flinging them outwards and down.

The walls were of dense igneous rock, not the limestone of surface outcrops in the grounds of the ruined palace.

The man gestured with his hand, and his seven cohorts instantly spread out, always keeping outcrops between themselves and Nighthawk.

And she went striding on, brushing past a thicket of thorn and climbing a path through rock outcrops that had probably once been a game trail.

And he built up speed again, the headlights slashing the night and showing outcrops of red rock, great laval heaps of it.

We skirted the rock outcrops and they were like pictures I had seen of kopjes in the South African veldt, and as the light strengthened and I could see further and further ahead, the plain we were on seemed endless.

And then we were out of the undergrowth on to a green strip of coarse African grass that went rolling down a shoulder of the mountain, cascading over rock outcrops towards the distant blue of Rudolf.

He would never have seen them if they had been on the trail, but they were on the skyline on the very edge of the gorge, figures moving in silhouette, climbing the rock outcrops and peering down.

It was easier than I had expected and above the rock band the slope was gentler, a chaos of mist-enveloped outcrops and boulders, the shattered debris of a mountain shaken by volcanic disturbance.

To the south, however, there was a wide, golden beach fronting a grassy plain, beautifully level, although there were outcrops of what seemed to be large boulders.

These were rugged and bare, gaunt outcrops of reddish stone interspersed with scree.

Three large granite outcrops could be seen from where they stood, a jagged scarp face across the waterway, and two more on their side, upstream and offset at an angle.