Sentence examples for overlain by from inspiring English sources

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.

It is succeeded by dark, carbonate mudstones that are, in turn, overlain by black shale.

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 bedrock is extensively overlain by tracts of brown soil on which flourish deciduous forests.

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

These buildings and ceramics are, in turn, overlain by Chavín materials (Early Horizon; 1000 400 bc).

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.

Rocks of the Gorstian Stage are overlain by those of the Ludfordian Stage and overlay those of the Homerian Stage.