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Definition of Overlain

Overlain
Overlie O`ver*lie", v. t. [imp. Overlay; p. p. Overlain; p. pr. & vb. n. Overlying.] To lie over or upon; specifically, to suffocate by lying upon; as, to overlie an infant. --Quain. A woman by negligence overlieth her child in her sleeping. --Chaucer.

Meaning of Overlain from wikipedia

- capped by a more resistant layer or layers of harder rock, e.g. shales overlain by sandstones. The resistant layer acts as a caprock that forms the flat...
- overlain along the southeastern side by the larger and younger crater Antoniadi. To the west-northwest lies Lyman. Nearly half the crater is overlain...
- Nasireddin lie to the west. Faraday has overlain and damaged the western rim, and this crater in turn has been overlain by several smaller craters. The rim...
- Guiana Shield consist of metasediments and metavolcanics (greenstones) overlain by sub-horizontal layers of sandstones, quartzites, shales and conglomerates...
- Tri****ic age. In places, these older rocks are overlain with alluvium, while in the west, it is overlain by the igneous rocks of the Deccan Traps. The...
- date back to the Precambrian Eon some 1.4 billion years ago which were overlain by rhyolites during the Cambrian Period. The range reaches a height of...
- Gunsight Butte 1.5 miles (2.4 km) to the east. The Entrada Sandstone is overlain by Romana Sandstone, and capped by Morrison Formation. The Entrada Sandstone...
- been partly overlain by ejecta, producing a rounded, lumpy surface. Still the surviving outer rim remains distinct, and is not overlain by any other...
- Chevallier. To the south-southwest is Cepheus. The northern rim of Oersted is overlain by a broken, lava-flooded craterlet. Just to the south is a younger, still-intact...
- a brecciated lens of granite fragments and particles of impact gl****, overlain by shales, limestones and granite-derived sandstones of lower Cretaceous...