Sentence examples for it overlies from inspiring English sources

Named for its extensive colourful alteration, it overlies a basal shield volcano and contains deeply carved circular valleys displaying portions of massive silica-rich comendite and trachyte lava flows which comprise the lava dome.

The Hettangian Stage underlies the Jurassic Sinemurian Stage, and it overlies the Rhaetian Stage of the Triassic Period.

The Beaufort Series is part of the Karoo System, and it overlies strata of the Ecca Series and underlies rocks of the Stormberg Series.

It overlies the truncated and strongly faulted coal-bearing Pennsylvanian sequence (the Pennsylvanian Subperiod extended from about 318 million to 299 million years ago), which is considered to be the main source of the gas.

The Bruce Series is the lowermost of the three major divisions of the Huronian System; it overlies pre-Huronian schists, underlies rocks of the Cobalt Series, and consists of about 1,500 m (about 5,000 feet) of quartzites, conglomerates, limestones, and siltstones.

It overlies rocks from the Pliocene Epoch (5.3 million to 2.6 million years ago) and is itself overlain by rocks of the Holocene Series (from 11,700 years ago to the present); together these two latter divisions make up the Quaternary System.

When the episode came out, it was divisive: some viewers found it overly cynical in its portrait of the mob.

My guest found it overly spicy, but I liked its verve.

Asimov found it overly herbal.

He did not want it overly designed.

I found it overly simplistic and patronising.