overlain's Usage Examples:

, under a covering of conglomerate locally known as lostra, which is itself overlain by a loose sandy soil.

This series is overlain unconformably by a younger quartzite of similar character, and itself rests upon the crystalline schists.

Large areas are overlain with trachyte, basalt, obsidian, tuff and pumice.

This system rests unconformably on the Witwatersrand series and is unconformably overlain by the Transvaal system.

- This portion of the system is overlain by thick beds of sedimentary rock, mostly conglomerate and sandstone, derived from the igneous rocks beneath.

They are conformably overlain by clays and limestones with Exogyra Overwegi belonging to the Lower Danian, and these by clays and white chalk with Ananchytes ovata of the Upper Danian.

From the edge of the coast belt to near the confluence of the Benue and Niger they are overlain by unfossiliferous sandstones, lying undisturbed and possibly of the age of the sandstones of the Congo basin.

overliesland is formed by stabilizing shingle, gravel and stones overlain by a thin layer of soil.

These are overlain, perhaps unconformably, by a great thickness of lavas and volcanic breccias (Pniel volcanic series, Beer Vley and Zeekoe Baard amygdaloids), and these in turn by the quartzites, grits and shales of the Black Reef series.

overliea unit of mudstone, the Tollhouse Mudstone occurs, which is directly overlain by a series of regular bedded argillaceous limestones.

At Hoopstad and at Stinkhoutboom the Witwatersrand series is unconformably overlain by 500 ft.

They are often overlain by schists and quartzites, or broken through by volcanic masses.

The basin in which these sandstones were laid down is limited on the east by ancient gneisses and schists overlain by the highly inclined red felspathic grits.

Synonyms:

lie,

Antonyms:

sit, stand,