What's the difference between outcrop and outcropping?
Outcrop
Definition:
(n.) The coming out of a stratum to the surface of the ground.
(n.) That part of inclined strata which appears at the surface; basset.
(v. i.) To come out to the surface of the ground; -- said of strata.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Private Islands Online website, which specialises in selling island paradises and rocky outcrops across the world, says a little bit of land surrounded by sea in the Cyclades or Dodecanese is the perfect trophy asset: "Greek islands are the ultimate status symbol, evoking images of sunglass-sporting shipping magnates sipping champagne on the deck of enormous yachts."
(2) A rocky outcrop on the edge of the continent, now called the Point Lobos state reserve, it is a beautifully elemental place that remains much as it was in Weston's time.
(3) Both Bishop and Shorten said operational details of freedom-of-navigation exercises were a matter for the military, and did not call for such operations within 12 nautical miles of Chinese rock outcrops or artificial islands.
(4) • enjoythecoast.it Plage de Bon Secours, Saint-Malo, France Facebook Twitter Pinterest On calm days, there is a striking contrast between the mirror-like surface of Saint-Malo sea pool and the ruffled sea beyond, between the order of its geometric walls and the random rocky outcrops behind them.
(5) So that’s what I did: I decided that this would no longer be just a rocky outcrop on the port of Funchal, it would be my island, about the size of a one-bedroom house.
(6) His destination was the large outcrop of copper-bearing strata in the mountains above the village of Mes Aynak.
(7) This rocky outcrop sees hundreds of visitors daily, in good weather and bad, and thousands of swimmers on Christmas Day.
(8) Stretching north of Punta del Este, the landscape and atmosphere of the Uruguayan coast changes swiftly and dramatically - huge swathes of empty beach, boutique hideaways on isolated outcrops, candlelit hippie towns and tiny fishing villages.
(9) It is one of the rocky outcrops overlooking the bucolic valley of Qunu, where South Africa's first black president grew up and which, at 93, he still calls home.
(10) At its margin abutting the central fibrous body the atrioventricular (A-V) node exhibited numerous fronds and outcroppings, some forming loop connections from one part of A-V node to another.
(11) The three-mile loop overlooks the blue-tinged fossil-rich outcrop where many of John Day’s fossils have been found.
(12) But new research about to be published suggests that over the decades they may have been chipping away at the wrong rocky outcrop on the Preseli Hills in Pembrokeshire .
(13) Plans to build the UK's first geothermal plant that would use heat from granite outcrops beneath the Earth's surface to power a small town were unveiled today.
(14) They made it clear that these “motherfucker refugees” were not welcome on the charmless rocky outcrop.
(15) In north-east Corsica, asbestos outcrops are a source of environmental pollution, as assessed by airborne concentrations of chrysotile and tremolite that are significantly higher in the north-east than the north-west.
(16) Known in China as the Diaoyu Islands, this small collection of islets and rocky outcroppings in the East China Sea has lain outside of direct Chinese control since 1895.
(17) Parking is near the elegiac ruins of Tintern Abbey, and from there one embarks upon a digestible but heart thumping climb up to the Devil's Pulpit, a rocky outcrop, affording fantastic views, where the evil doer himself supposedly used to preach temptation to the industrious monks scurrying below.
(18) Dunvegan Castle and Gardens Clinging to a rocky outcrop, Dunvegan Castle has been the MacLeod stronghold for eight centuries.
(19) On the other side, the vegetation opened up again and the slope led down towards a small outcrop wreathed with pine trees.
(20) Calm and controlled, he stood on an outcrop barely 7m from where I was standing, his gaze locked on the swimmers.