Definition of Outcropped

1. Verb. (past of outcrop) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Outcropped

1. outcrop [v] - See also: outcrop

Lexicographical Neighbors of Outcropped

outcoupling
outcourt
outcourts
outcrack
outcrafty
outcrawl
outcrawled
outcrawling
outcrawls
outcreep
outcried
outcrier
outcriers
outcries
outcrop
outcropped (current term)
outcropping
outcroppings
outcrops
outcross
outcrossed
outcrosses
outcrossing
outcrow
outcrowd
outcrowded
outcrowding
outcrowds
outcrowed
outcrowing

Literary usage of Outcropped

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Examination of Prospects: A Mining Geology by Charles Godfrey Gunther (1912)
"Except where the secondary ores actually outcropped, as is said to have been ... AT BISBEE, ARIZONA/ one only of the large pyritic ore bodies outcropped at ..."

2. Final Report by New Jersey Geological Survey (1910)
"In estimating the amount of reserve ore it must be remembered that only those ore bodies have been exploited that outcropped, or that are continuations of ..."

3. Production and Properties of Zinc: A Treatise on the Occurrence and by Walter Renton Ingalls (1902)
"A shoot of ore pitching east and partly replacing a stratum of the limestone outcropped on the side of a hill and has been followed several hundred feet, ..."

4. The Routes and Mineral Resources of North Western Canada by E. Jerome Dyer (1898)
"All the coal fonni, outcropped on the river banks. r* Coal near the Mouth of the Mackenzie. (See paragraph under part B, Section 10, referring to Ogilvie's ..."

5. Report by Tasmania Dept. of Mines (1897)
"On the general plan the position of this reef is shown as if it outcropped on surface, allowance having been made fur the underlay. ..."

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