"sub-outcrop" meaning in All languages combined

See sub-outcrop on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: sub-outcrops [plural]
Etymology: From sub- + outcrop. Etymology templates: {{af|en|sub-|outcrop}} sub- + outcrop Head templates: {{en-noun}} sub-outcrop (plural sub-outcrops)
  1. (geology) A rock stratum that was once exposed at an ancient erosion surface and unconformably underlies another rock stratum. Categories (topical): Geology

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1917, Cuthbert Baring Horwood, The Gold Deposits of the Rand, page 160:",
          "text": "Beyond the eastern limit the outcrop dips below the Black Reef and Dolomite formations; but the sub-outcrop, sweeping round and striking south-east, has been traced by bore-holes for another ten or twelve miles.",
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          "ref": "1924, Mining Publications (publisher), The Mining Magazine, Volumes 30-31, page 372:",
          "text": "The sub-outcrop on the northern part of Rietfontein No. 4 and Benoni No. 3 is fixed by several bore-holes and by mine workings.",
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          "ref": "1966, D.S. Parasnis, Mining Geophysics, page 147:",
          "text": "Another interpretation is that the moraine cover is considerably thinner at the anomaly centre than at the drillhole sites so that the sub-outcrop of the ore actually occurs north of the position in which it is shown in Fig.50.",
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          "ref": "1986, Maurice Slansky, Geology of Sedimentary Phosphates, page 50:",
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          "ref": "1991, Stephen A. Manydeeds, Bruce D. Smith, Mineral Frontiers on Indian Lands:",
          "text": "This great abundance of surficial silica deposited in the five chalcedonic sinter terraces indicates that extensive sub-outcrop volumes of the Palm Springs formation and the Canebrake conglomerate have been saturated, soaked, and replaced by silica, thereby forming key gold target areas in Sections 20 and 30.",
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          "ref": "2015, Wolfgang Derek Maier, Raimo Lahtinen, Hugh O'Brien, Mineral Deposits of Finland, page 28:",
          "text": "Subsequently, a low-altitude airborne geophysical survey was flown over the whole area, and the results were useful in determining the extent and structure of the carbonatite sub-outcrop.",
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