overlie

How To Use overlie In A Sentence

• Wetlands may overlie important groundwater aquifers, especially on moraines, eskers, and fluvioglacial deposits.
• The Park overlies a segment of a 400 km long southwest-trending fossil reef that surrounds the Delaware Basin of southeastern New Mexico and western Texas which was a small reef-fringed inland sea in Permian times 280-250 mya. Carlsbad Caverns National Park, United States
• The allochthonous units that overlie the eastern part of this terrane were probably emplaced when the Magnitogorsk volcanic arc collided with this margin in late Devonian times.
• The trailing end has a height greater than the maximum height of the disc space forming a flanged portion adapted to overlie a part of the anterior aspects of the vertebral bodies adjacent and proximate the disc space to be fused.
• This often overlies a well of grief, and if unmourned, it simmers, at times boiling over and burning all those in close proximity. Wild Feminine
• This goal overlies and explains everything the party does. A Privilege to Die
• The sand in the Marietta preserve overlies an ancient soil surface so hard and dense that water cannot percolate through it.
• It overlies quaternary deposits mainly of sand sheets. Doñana National Park, Spain
• Although it is counterintuitive for a graben to overlie a ridge, it has long been recognized that graben can result from local extension and thinning in the anticlinal domains that overlie linear ridges.
• Dolomitic drift and meltwater deposits are characteristic and overlie limestone, calcareous shale, and dolomitic mudstone. Ecoregions of Indiana and Ohio (EPA)