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Meaning of "is overlain"
In the context of geography or geology, the term 'is overlain' refers to the condition where one layer or material covers or lies on top of another layer. This can refer to the natural stacking of different rock or soil layers, or it can describe the artificial placement of one material over another, such as when a new road surface is laid over an existing one
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This is overlain by a thick layer of glacial debris.
The upper section of the member is overlain by mudstone and siltstone.
It is overlain by an anomalous transparent lower crustal domain beneath the central basin.
The western side of the rim is overlain by what appear to be impact craters.
It is overlain by the Lontova Stage clays.
It has a heavily eroded outer rim that is overlain by several smaller craters.
The map is overlain with colors that represent different geological terrains.
The northern portion of the crater is overlain by the walled plain Darwin.
The island is overlain with a fertile layer of boulder clay formed during the Pleistocene glaciations.
The rim of Wargentin is somewhat worn and is overlain by a few small craters.
This satellite crater is overlain by multiple impacts along its northern and western rim.
The formation overlies the Tarjados Formation and is overlain by the Ischicuca Formation.
The basement complex is overlain by Neoarchaean supracrustal sequences and intruded by plutonic suites.
The formation overlies the Ischicuca Formation and is overlain by the Ischigualasto Formation.
It is overlain conformably by the Ghrudaidh Formation of the Durness Group.
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Schickard has a worn rim that is overlain in several locations by smaller impact craters.
This temple also has numerous carvings and a square mandapa is overlain by a sapta-ratha.
The western wall is overlain by several small impacts.
It is overlain by the Bearpaw Formation.
The southern part of the interior floor is overlain by the outer rampart of Lomonosov.
However, it is overlain and partially obliterated by the even larger Rheasilvia.
This is an old, worn formation that is overlain by a number of smaller craters.
This is overlain in western areas by the channel-deposit facies Moss Back Member.
The southern part of Maxwell is overlain in turn by the partly flooded Lomonosov.
It is overlain by 12 m of weathered and highly fractured till.
It interfingers with and is overlain by the Miocene Monterey Formation.
It is overlain by Quaternary marine sands formed in the last 2.5 million years.
Germany anthem is overlain by Turkish music.
The remainder of the rim remains well-defined, although it is overlain by several tiny craterlets.
To the west it is overlain by younger Jurassic beds.
Upon removal, the adhesive surface with its image is overlain with a transparent sheet.
O A confined aquifer is overlain by materials which do not transmit water rapidly.
The rim of Poisson is heavily eroded, and is overlain by several craters.
The southern rim is overlain by material deposits, most likely ejecta from another impact.
On the levees, grey clay is overlain by oxidized silt and sand.
It is overlain by the Battle, Whitemud, and Scollard formations.
The east-northeastern section of the rim is overlain by a merged pair of small craters.
The east rim is overlain by Zagut E, a crater with an irregular and flat floor.
The northeastern rim of Danjon is overlain by the smaller crater D'Arsonval.
To the south the unit is overlain by liassic sediments of the Aquitaine Basin.
For most of its extent, it is overlain by the Eromanga Basin.
The Lambeth Group is overlain by the Thames Group, which consists of two formations.
In the southwest the unit is overlain by liassic sediments of the Aquitaine Basin.
The formation is overlain by the Guanaco Formation.
The formation is overlain by the Hondita Formation.
The Ordovician sequence is overlain by rocks of the Llandovery series Lower Silurian.
Nearly half the crater is overlain by the rim, outer rampart, and ejecta from Antoniadi.
In the north, San Marino is overlain by Pliocene marine sediments.
The northern rim of Oersted is overlain by a broken, lava-flooded craterlet.
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This region may be overlain by ulnar innervation
It is overlain by an anomalous transparent lower crustal domain beneath the central basin
These craters are in turn overlain by smaller craterlets
