The phrase "an overburden" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to an excessive load or burden, often in contexts related to work, stress, or environmental issues.
Example: "The team was struggling to meet deadlines due to an overburden of tasks assigned to them."
Alternatives: "an excessive load" or "a heavy burden."
One enduring frustration is that most of the Lydian city ruins lie under what archaeologists call an "overburden".
The survival of these soils has been facilitated by an overburden of Aeolian sand forming dunes above them.
Here, we consider a two-dimensional domain in cylindrical coordinates, comprised of an aquifer and an overburden, where the interaction between the two media is handled by imposing the continuities of pressures and fluid fluxes at the aquifer-overburden interface.
The performance of the clay barrier with and without geogrid layer having an overburden pressure equivalent to that of cover system was monitored by measuring water breakthrough at the onset of differential settlements.
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With the provision of an overburden equivalent to that of cover system, integrity of geogrid reinforced clay barrier was found to be retained even after inducing a distortion level of 0.125.
In addition, the data make an overburden-thickness-based distinction between lowland and mountainous areas with 'high to medium' class (>10%), which we merged in the class of medium ice content (15%).
Its intense, exhilarating look at an overburdened Chicago emergency room instantly turned "ER" into a cultural milestone.
City officials, citing concerns about a lack of space at schools and an overburdened welfare system, said this year that Ulan Bator would not accept any more rural migrants.
Now, there are growing fears about the ability of an overburdened pension system to support them when they reach retirement age.
(Pfaff cites the journalist Amy Bach, who once watched an overburdened public defender "plead out" forty-eight clients in a row in a single courtroom).
