Sentence examples for they overlie from inspiring English sources

They overlie white sands and clays and can support intensive agriculture but must be subjected to fallowing to restore fertility.

Spectacular exposures of these rocks occur in the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River in northwestern Arizona, where they overlie the strongly deformed and contorted Vishnu Schist, the angularity of which stands in bold contrast to the almost horizontal bedding of the Grand Canyon Series.

They overlie the obturator foramen on the inner surface of the pelvic bones.

Coronal streamer represents one of the pre-eruption configurations of coronal mass ejections (CMEs), because they overlie prominences and often possess all the substructures of CMEs.

The visible remains date to the Early Classic but they overlie Late Preclassic construction.

Human limbal fibroblasts (hLF) may be incorporated into RAFT TEs, where they support overlying hLE and improve phenotype.

Some of the basement fault systems appear to be recently active, since they involve overlying young (Tertiary–Quaternary) sedimentary layers, and may be associated with intracrustal earthquakes recorded in the area.

They unconformably overlie the Gangdese batholith and are displaced by the Great Counter thrust (GCT) fault, forming a fault contact with the Xigaze forearc basin, the associated subduction complex and the Tethyan Himalayan sequence.

(The latter lines are difficult to distinguish because they closely overlie each other).

The echoes may also show other objects, such as schools of fish, or they may reveal the dual nature of the bottom, where a layer of soft mud may overlie rock.

They had perishable roofs and date to the Late Classic, although Structures 7 and 8 may overlie Middle Preclassic remains.