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There the quantity of barren overlying rock and earth is enormous, and detracts immensely from the value of the mines.

Their geological formation is granite, with gneiss and mica slate, with clay slate, hornblende and primitive limestone overlying.

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.

Her ugly old face flushed through the overlying paint and powder.

How does unconformability prove a lapse of time between the accumulation of the underlying and overlying strata?

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On this page you'll find 67 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to overlying, such as: extending, projecting, protruding, coincidental, and super-imposed.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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