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from The Century Dictionary.
- In geology and mining, outcropping.
- noun The cropping out or appearance of rock on the surface of a stratum, or series of strata.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The upward direction of a vein in a mine; the emergence of a stratum at the surface.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun mining The
upward direction of avein in amine . - noun mining The
emergence of astratum at thesurface .
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