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- noun geology An
outcrop of hardrock , often in the form of acliff at the edge of aplateau , that forms themargin of agravel deposit
Etymologies
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Examples
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We located another separate burial site tucked up underneath some rimrock and walled off, as if by a stone mason ... a protruding femur confirmed it as a human burial ... these sites and many more artifacts are STILL THERE as I have not divulged the location to anyone ...
Some time back Dave Petzel made an excellent post concering the last days of Neanderthal man. 2009
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I started hand loading at the age of nine up in the sagebrush and rimrock cow country.
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We located another separate burial site tucked up underneath some rimrock and walled off, as if by a stone mason ... a protruding femur confirmed it as a human burial ... these sites and many more artifacts are STILL THERE as I have not divulged the location to anyone ...
Some time back Dave Petzel made an excellent post concering the last days of Neanderthal man. 2009
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I started hand loading at the age of nine up in the sagebrush and rimrock cow country.
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Along the escarpments, redberry junipers grow on the rimrock and cliff faces, along with skunkbush sumac, ephedra, mountain mahogany, plum, grape, and clematis.
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Broad plains covered in sagebrush steppe, rimrock, and rocky uplands are typical of Ecoregion 80.
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To see the West is to lust after it; and from the rimrock to the ramparts, where the shouting always begins, it is only a short leap.
The Custer Syndrome 2008
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He skirted the patch of mountain mahogany with the polished red branches and made his way along the rimrock, the oily rifle in his hand.
Deuces Wild Dusty Richards 2004
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Someplace, the man cut off from his people slept under a rimrock.
Deuces Wild Dusty Richards 2004
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Or I can walk up the canyon and climb high narrow hills, through the ferny trees, until I stand on rimrock in the wind.
The Life of the World to Come Baker, Kage 2004
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