Sentence examples for is overlain by from inspiring English sources

RS1 overlies incised-valley-fill deposits formed in the earliest stage of the transgression and is overlain by shoreface deposits that are further overlain by embayment deposits, such as lagoonal and flood-tidal-delta deposits, formed during succeeding barrier development.

Vesta's core is overlain by a rocky mantle.

Such an instability can arise whenever relatively warm, light air is overlain by cooler, heavier air.

By contrast, in a platform the basement is overlain by horizontal or subhorizontal sediments.

In places the coral is overlain by shallow red earth or alluvium.

The Capitanian Stage resides above the Wordian Stage and is overlain by the Wuchiapingian Stage.

The Wuchiapingian Stage overlies the Capitanian Stage and is overlain by the Changhsingian Stage.

Elsewhere the Central Russian Upland is overlain by deep deposits of clays, limestones, and sands.

The Jiangshanian Stage overlies the Paibian Stage and is overlain by Stage 10 of the Furongian Series.

The Givetian Stage is overlain by the Frasnian Stage of the Upper Devonian Series and underlain by the Eifelian Stage of the Middle Devonian Series.

There are chalk outcrops in western Norfolk, and, in the eastern half of the county, chalk is overlain by later deposits.