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The tiny outcropping is a puffin sanctuary, where thousands breed between the end of March and July.
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Tim Chester, AFAR Media, 13 Dec. 2024
And the rock art is just part of the attraction at Gold Butte, as the landscape is an otherworldly, Mars-like collection of red and tan sandstone outcroppings rising from the desert floor.
—Graham Averill, Outside Online, 3 Mar. 2025
The need for troops was unfathomable to a cluster of humanitarian volunteers from southern Arizona at a tiny aid camp east of Sasabe, Ariz., where miles of border wall abruptly come to an end at an outcropping in the Sonoran Desert.
—Jack Healy, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2025
The terrain — thick jack pines and swamp that gave way to small bushes, rock outcroppings, and thick caribou moss — made for quite a climb.
—Jim Tappan, Outdoor Life, 20 Mar. 2025
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Tim Chester, AFAR Media, 13 Dec. 2024
And the rock art is just part of the attraction at Gold Butte, as the landscape is an otherworldly, Mars-like collection of red and tan sandstone outcroppings rising from the desert floor.
—Graham Averill, Outside Online, 3 Mar. 2025
The need for troops was unfathomable to a cluster of humanitarian volunteers from southern Arizona at a tiny aid camp east of Sasabe, Ariz., where miles of border wall abruptly come to an end at an outcropping in the Sonoran Desert.
—Jack Healy, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2025
The terrain — thick jack pines and swamp that gave way to small bushes, rock outcroppings, and thick caribou moss — made for quite a climb.
—Jim Tappan, Outdoor Life, 20 Mar. 2025
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“Outcropping.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/outcropping. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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outcropping
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out·crop·ping
ˈȧut-ˌkrä-piŋ 
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