affleurement — meaning in English
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English meaning
Senses
affleurement is used for these senses in English:
- crag (Northern England) A rocky outcrop; a rugged steep cliff or rock.
crag — full definition
- noun A rocky outcrop; a rugged steep cliff or rock.
- noun A rough, broken fragment of rock.
- noun A partially compacted bed of gravel mixed with shells, of the Pliocene to Pleistocene epochs.
- noun A game played with three dice, similar to Yahtzee.
outcrop — full definition
- noun A piece of land that stands out (usually into water) from the land surrounding.
- noun A coming out of bedrock or of an unconsolidated deposit to the surface of the ground.
- noun The part of a rock formation that appears at the surface of the ground.