Sentence examples for overlying layers from inspiring English sources

Water, too, is not stable against sunlight that has not been filtered by overlying layers containing ozone or molecular oxygen, which very strongly absorb much of the Sun's ultraviolet radiation.

The surface viewed from Earth, called the photosphere, is the layer from which most of the radiation reaches us; the radiation from below is absorbed and reradiated, and the emission from overlying layers drops sharply, by about a factor of six every 200 kilometres (124 miles).

The subsidence of overlying layers was larger at the bottom than at the top.

Non-coordination deformation was observed at the top and bottom of the subsiding overlying layers.

The presence of overlying layers of volcanic ash helped the team pin down the ages of the site".

Local regions along the outer margin of the orthopyroxene grain are comprised of altered rim material with both underlying and overlying layers, each 2 to 5 nm thick (Figure 3a,b).

Pile rows embedded in a two-layered poroelastic half-space with a softer overlying layer usually generate better vibration isolation effects than those with a stiffer overlying layer.

Albeluvisols are characterized by a subsurface layer of brownish clay into which "tongues" of bleached material project from an overlying layer extensively leached of clay and iron oxides.

Most of the greens found in the skin of fishes, amphibians, reptiles, and birds do not arise from the presence of green pigments (although exceptions occur); rather, they result from the emergence of scattered blue light through an overlying layer of yellow pigment.

Transition with overlying layer is gradual and wavy.

The overlying layer, hyperintense on T2-weighted images, at the luminal side of the bowel wall corresponds to (sub mucosal thickening, as a consequence of "non-specific inflammation" with or without infiltration of endometriosis (Figs. 20 and 21) [17].