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outcropped
Variant of outcrop
noun
- a breaking forth; specif., the emergence of a mineral from the earth so as to be exposed on the surface
- the mineral that so emerges
intransitive verb outcropped, outcropping
- to emerge from the earth in this way
- to break forth
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