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Definition of Overlains

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 Overlains from wikipedia

- hair grows). Tectonic lithospheric plates consist of lithospheric mantle overlain by one or two types of crustal material: oceanic crust (in older texts...
- Rico is composed of Cretaceous to Eocene volcanic and plutonic rocks, overlain by younger Oligocene and more recent carbonates and other sedimentary rocks...
- Guiana Shield consist of metasediments and metavolcanics (greenstones) overlain by sub-horizontal layers of sandstones, quartzites, shales and conglomerates...
- 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...
- Precambrian ba****t rocks formed within the last two billion years and overlain by thick sequences of marine sedimentary rocks, inters****d with igneous...
- miles) silicate mantle is overlain by a volcanic crust, Ganymede's ~1,315 kilometers (817 miles) thick silicate mantle is overlain by ~835 kilometers (519...
- ice cascades. The sal****er source is a subglacial pool of unknown size overlain by about 400 metres (1,300 ft) of ice, several kilometers from its tiny...
- geology of Thailand includes deep crystalline metamorphic ba****t rocks, overlain by extensive sandstone, limestone, turbidites and some volcanic rocks....
- 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...
- Brazil includes very ancient craton ba****t rock from the Precambrian overlain by sedimentary rocks and intruded by igneous activity, as well as impacted...