However, these soils are overlain by peat accumulation. From Wordnik.com. [Wetland classifications] Reference
These were overlain by sands and dunefields in the Quaternary. From Wordnik.com. [Willandra Lakes Region, Australia] Reference
The bones were overlain by fried and putrefied connective tissue. From Wordnik.com. [Break No Bones]
I see a strong negative trend, with shorter term variability overlain on it. From Wordnik.com. [Gore Gored: Monckton replies « Climate Audit] Reference
Varved, lacustrine clays overlain by fluvial sands and peat deposits are common. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of New Jersey (EPA)] Reference
These become overlain with sand from the dunes, and develop into grassy middens. From Wordnik.com. [Sundarbans, Bangladesh] Reference
It is composed of Cretaceous-age sands and clays overlain by mostly loamy soils. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Mississippi (EPA)] Reference
Unconfined—An aquifer that is not overlain by a layer of impermeable rock or soil. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-09-01] Reference
A soft carpet, overlain with brown linen, is spread from the curbstone into the hall. From Wordnik.com. [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference
(= Raj, government) will collapse and cease like an overlain infant, without a shot fired. From Wordnik.com. [Vailima Letters] Reference
Rocks are overlain by thick and heavily leached oxisols in the many parts of the ecoregion. From Wordnik.com. [Northeastern Congolian lowland forests] Reference
Bering Sea and adjacent areas overlain by the EEZs of Russia and the United States, respectively. From Wordnik.com. [Fisheries and aquaculture in the North Pacific (Bering Sea)] Reference
The Kinder Scout plateau is a more or less flat slab of gritstone overlain by a thick layer of peat. From Wordnik.com. [Locations: Kinder Scout, Derbyshire] Reference
Every year of that 50 years consists of the ‘climate’ value with annual deviations overlain on it. From Wordnik.com. [More Unthreaded « Climate Audit] Reference
Do they go in to hiding til the next day or are they there but overlain with the sunny day that follows?. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-10-01] Reference
What matters is the trend over time, and whether a spurious trend has been overlain on the actual trend. From Wordnik.com. [More on Asphalt « Climate Audit] Reference
The sea floor of the Baltic is also of sandstone, overlain by younger rocks, including Ordovician limestones. From Wordnik.com. [Kvarken Archipelago High Coast, Finland and Sweden] Reference
Tertiary sedimentary deposits are common, but are locally overlain by patches of Pleistocene sands and gravels. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of New Jersey (EPA)] Reference
Basement rocks consist of volcanic lavas from the Ethiopian highlands that reach the Red Sea, overlain with regosols. From Wordnik.com. [Eritrean coastal desert] Reference
His second marriage, of course, had overlain the memories of his first, like the later writing on a medieval palimpsest. From Wordnik.com. [2061 Odyssey Three]
Confined—An aquifer overlain by one or more layers of impermeable rock or soil that restrict water to within the aquifer. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-09-01] Reference
The calcareous clay, sand, and marl is commonly overlain by alkaline, clayey soils that expand when wet and shrink when dry. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Mississippi (EPA)] Reference
The volcanos erupted about 300 million years ago, and there's basalt, overlain by coarse sandstone and another layer of basalt. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-02-01] Reference
The sacred landscapes of the Mahabharata and the Ramayana, soon to be overlain with the new hydrological temples of modern India. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-03-01] Reference
In Old Bonitian houses sand gathered while the rooms were still inhabited; blown sand was frequently overlain by occupational debris. From Wordnik.com. [The Material Culture of Pueblo Bonito] Reference
This layer of tuff was in turn overlain by a series of andesitic and basaltic lavas, between the late Pliocene and early Pleistocene. From Wordnik.com. [Göreme National Park and the Rock Sites of Cappodocia, Turkey] Reference
These basement rocks have been weathered for millions of years and are now overlain by thick layers of heavily leached, red earth soils. From Wordnik.com. [Cross-Sanaga-Bioko coastal forests] Reference
The surface geology of Sumba is composed primarily of sandstone and mudstone, with some igneous intrusions overlain by recent limestone. From Wordnik.com. [Sumba deciduous forests] Reference
The landscape throughout much of this ecoregion is subdued, and largely consists of Proterozoic rocks, sometimes overlain with Eocene marine sediments. From Wordnik.com. [Jarrah-Karri forest and shrublands] Reference
The central plateau consists of ancient crystalline rocks with granites overlain by unfossiliferous sandstones and conglomerates considered to be of Palaeozoic age. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1] Reference
When the aquifer is overlain by an impermeable layer and the water is under pressure that forces it up to the surface through any openings, it is an artesian aquifer. From Wordnik.com. [5. How plants live and grow] Reference
Basement rocks are probably of Precambrian, Cambrian, Ordovician and Silurian age and are generally overlain by upper and lower horizontal sediments of the Parmeener Supergroup. From Wordnik.com. [Tasmanian Wilderness, Australia] Reference
It can be overlain by several meters of snow, or little or no snow. From Wordnik.com. [Featured Articles - Encyclopedia of Earth] Reference
Much of the lower-angle outer flanks of the volcano are overlain by pyroclastic-flow deposits. From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference
The prospective rock units are overlain by younger carbonate rocks and conceal the TNB in this area. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference
A bimodal sequence of submarine basaltic to rhyolitic volcanic rocks is overlain by extensive multi-facies exhalite and iron formation. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference
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