part of a rock formation or mineral vein that appears at the surface of the earth
2.
an emergence; appearance
verb (ˌaʊtˈkrɒp)Word forms: -crops, -cropping or -cropped(intransitive)
3.
(of rock strata, mineral veins, etc) to protrude through the surface of the earth
4. another word for crop out
Examples of 'outcropped' in a sentence
outcropped
Holocene limnic deposits characteristic of the average latitudes have partially outcropped as a result of young glacial sculpture aging.
Grzegorz Jarnuszewski, Edward Meller 2018, 'Morphological and Physical Properties of Dehydrated Holocene Carbonate Limnic Depositsin Post-Bog Areas of NW Poland', Journal of Ecological Engineeringhttp://www.journalssystem.com/jeeng/Morphological-and-physical-properties-of-dehydrated-Holocene-carbonate-limnic-deposits,79412,0,2.html. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
This gave opportunities to activate the frost-weathering process on top of the ridge where the parent material outcropped.
Nyssen, Jan, Van Nieuland, Jasper, Vandenberghe, Dimitri, Juilleret, Jérôme , Terhorst,Birgit 2016, 'Grèzes litées and their genesis: the site of Enscherange in the Rhenish-Ardennes Massifas a case study', DIE ERDE: Journal of the Geographical Society of Berlinhttp://www.die-erde.org/index.php/die-erde/article/view/251/121. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)