Bonitian construction and many overlie earlier walls. From Wordnik.com. [The Architecture of Pueblo Bonito :] Reference
< 35 > These deposits frequently overlie the gravel beds. From Wordnik.com. [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference
Arid areas that overlie reservoirs of brackish water; and. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 5] Reference
Arid areas that overlie reservoirs of brackish water; and. From Wordnik.com. [1. Lost crops of the incas.] Reference
Orthoptera, a pair of backwardly directed appendages which overlie in. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
These overlie a basement complex of Pre-Cambrian granitic igneous rocks. From Wordnik.com. [Southwestern Arabian montane woodlands] Reference
Or does it flatly overlie this earth, not revolving with and over this earth. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Damned] Reference
Nor does the missionary administration come in any way to overlie the governmental. From Wordnik.com. [The American Missionary — Volume 44, No. 06, June, 1890] Reference
And what about that Building 4 footer that seems to overlie the east side of the circle?. From Wordnik.com. [American Scene: Much Ado About a Circle] Reference
Cretaceous-age deposits of silt, sand, clay, and gravel overlie the older limestone, shale, and chert. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Mississippi (EPA)] Reference
They overlie nearly horizontal, Devonian age sandstone, siltstone, and shale of the Catskill Formation. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia (EPA)] Reference
Poorly drained soils overlie limestone, calcareous sandstones, marls, swamp deposit mucks, and algal muds. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Florida (EPA)] Reference
Tertiary rocks overlie other peneplains to form spectacular high altitude moors like the Thousand Acre Plateau. From Wordnik.com. [Nelson Coast temperate forests] Reference
For example, surface drying of open tundra is restricted when non-transpiring mosses and lichens overlie the tundra. From Wordnik.com. [Effects of climate change on hydro-ecology of contributing basins in the Arctic] Reference
Poorly-drained sandy soils overlie Miocene-age sands and clays or Pleistocene-age calcareous sand and shell deposits. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Florida (EPA)] Reference
These in turn overlie Devonian age sandstone, siltstone, and shale of the Catskill Formation (Berg and others, 1980). From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia (EPA)] Reference
Dolomitic drift and meltwater deposits are characteristic and overlie limestone, calcareous shale, and dolomitic mudstone. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Indiana and Ohio (EPA)] Reference
Many wetlands exist because they overlie impermeable soils or rocks and there is therefore little or no interaction with groundwater. From Wordnik.com. [Ecosystems and Human Well-being~ Wetlands and Water~ Wetlands and Water~ Ecosystems and Human Well-being] Reference
The lakes occur on thin Plio-Pleistocene sediments that overlie the deeply weathered sand and kaolinitic clay of the Miocene Hawthorn Group. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Florida (EPA)] Reference
Wisconsinan till, glacial outwash, Recent alluvium, and, in the south, Illinoian till overlie gently dipping Devonian and Mississippian strata. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia (EPA)] Reference
On shore, 5 m sand dunes and alluvial sands and gravels overlie relatively recent sedimentary, Tertiary clastic and PreCambrian crystalline rocks. From Wordnik.com. [Islands and Protected Areas of the Gulf of California, Mexico] Reference
Subsea relict permafrost is thought to contain or overlie large volumes of CH4 in the form of gas hydrates at depths of up to several hundred meters. From Wordnik.com. [Permafrost in the Arctic] Reference
The halomorphic soils of the Etosha area overlie calcrete and are shallow, alkaline, high in water soluble salts while poor in both phosphates and nitrogen. From Wordnik.com. [Angolan Mopane woodlands] Reference
The ash hazard to aviation is not a rare possibility on a worldwide scale, given that many major air routes overlie the world's volcanically active regions. From Wordnik.com. [Reducing the threat to aviation from airborne volcanic ash] Reference
Olean Till, glacial outwash, glacial lake deposits, and Recent alluvium partly overlie gently dipping Devonian age sandstone, siltstone, claystone, and shale. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia (EPA)] Reference
The Gran Sabana uplands are gently rolling high plains, formed by sediments of the Roraima Formation, which overlie discordantly the rocks of the Guyana Shield. From Wordnik.com. [Guyanan savanna] Reference
In areas that overlie a designated sole-source aquifer, no federal funding may be committed for projects that the EPA determines may contaminate such an aquifer. From Wordnik.com. [Safe Drinking Water Act, United States] Reference
Pliocene to Quaternary conglomerates and Pliocene tuff, limestone, travertine and clay stone overlie these Mesozoic rocks and occur in palaeovalleys (ancient valley bottoms). From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Survey Report 18] Reference
Ideological positions have been robbed of much of their meaning; terrible rancor has been caused by the killings; destruction and displacement of populations overlie all policies. From Wordnik.com. [Shedding Light on Lebanon] Reference
Usually they enfeeble the sympathies, and often overlie and smother them. From Wordnik.com. [Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection] Reference
Those to the south, where the shallows overlie sand and mud, are not so good. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Midian — Volume 1] Reference
Were we really crossing the layers of rock which overlie the granite foundation?. From Wordnik.com. [A Journey to the Interior of the Earth] Reference
Nothing could overlie such a fellow; a kind of base success was written on his brow. From Wordnik.com. [Essays of Travel] Reference
These scales slightly overlie each other, and can be raised on end at the will of the animal. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Adventure Tales] Reference
These overlie 11% of protein-coding genes that, therefore, are not mandatory for survival of human cells. From Wordnik.com. [Naturejobs - All Jobs] Reference
The freshwater marl, containing numerous skeletons of the great deer, or Megaceros, overlie in the Isle of. From Wordnik.com. [The Antiquity of Man] Reference
This was a satire upon shams, conventions, the disguises which overlie the most spiritual realities of the soul. From Wordnik.com. [Brief History of English and American Literature] Reference
But I reckoned without those superficial beach jealousies which overlie the essential solidarity of the fishermen. From Wordnik.com. [A Poor Man's House] Reference
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