Sentence examples for be overlain from inspiring English sources

To maintain containment and thereby prevent leakage of the injected fluids, the target aquifer should be overlain by a confining layer (cap-rock).

Mouth-bar deposits, which are characterized by coarsening- up successions, infill the channels as they migrate laterally, and sometimes could be overlain by a channel deposit.

The underwater distributary channel deposits can also be overlain by interdistributary bay mudstones, known as channel abandonment.

Distinctions between dead coral framework and live coral patches are facilitated in SfM reconstructions, which preserve colours, particularly as highly detailed textures can be overlain on meshes.

It is important that the receiving aquifer have sufficient porosity and permeability and be overlain by a suitable low-permeability cap rock formation.

One map illustrates how data that show 2010 reported cholera cases can be overlain with data on unusual rainfall events in countries where there is limited access to sanitation and clean water.

In western Zambia they are overlain by younger sandy deposits, relicts of a once more-extensive Kalahari desert.

The region is overlain by a mantle of fine-grained, wind-deposited, yellowish alluvium known as loess, which is also carried in suspension by the Huang He.

The relevant quotation appeared on the dustjacket of Hitch-22, Hitchens's memoir published in 2010, but was overlain by a red cross with "no, CH" inscribed beside it.

As originally described, the Cambrian System was overlain by the Silurian System, which was named, also in 1835, by Scottish geologist Roderick I. Murchison.

The plume concentrations and groundwater gradients were overlain on the permafrost map to correlate permafrost locations with groundwater movement and the spatial distribution of TCE moving with groundwater.