overlie
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The researchers combined reams of geologic data from 2003 to 2017 to determine where U.S. forests and shrublands overlie bedrock that roots could feasibly reach.
From Scientific American • Dec. 29, 2021
However, near the bottom horizontal strata overlie tilted strata.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017
Schmidt calculates that these tumbled patches of ice probably overlie pockets of liquid water trapped in the shifting ice.
From Slate • Dec. 19, 2014
These geologic units overlie the craton we want to study and so don’t tell us very much.
From New York Times • Jan. 7, 2011
High clouds temporarily overlie about a third of the GRS.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
