sub-outcrop
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.75 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "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."
- "Certain pellets are very homogeneous in appearance, with practically no endogangue; grains of this type are frequently contained in sub-outcrop strata."
- "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."
- "The government of Mali interprets artisanal mining as operations engaged in the extraction and beneficiation of mineral commodities sourced from primary and secondary deposits, outcrops or sub-outcrops, using manual methods and traditional processes."