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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
A deep fracture in the Tibetan Plateau known as the Cona-Sangri rift overlies the tear—a tantalizing hint that the tumult in the Indian Plate’s underbelly might somehow ripple to the surface.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 9, 2024
The freeways are the concrete net that overlies it all, but only real Angelenos enter their mesmerizing alpha state.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2023
So they wet the skin that overlies this big balloon of blood right behind their nostrils.
From Slate ● Jan. 28, 2023
When a strong jet streak overlies a developing low-pressure system, it creates a feedback pattern that makes warm air rise at an increasing rate.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 28, 2022
This narrows also differs from the Lower in that the quartzite on one side is covered with Potsdam conglomerate, which overlies the truncated edges of the vertical layers of quartzite with unconformable contact.
From The Geography of the Region about Devils Lake and the Dalles of the Wisconsin by Wallace W. Atwood
The former Manchester mayor comes off as a gregarious, upbeat fellow with an admittedly nerdy overlay.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
But a digital forensics expert told AFP's fact-checkers that the anomaly was the result of a failed text overlay by a news station that had syndicated the official feed.
From Barron's ● Apr. 11, 2026
The other is an overlay of orange and yellow splotches on the land.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026
“I just don’t think agentic AI overlay on going out, filling out a bunch of forms is really going to solve any consumer’s problems anytime soon,” he says on an analyst call.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 4, 2026
The rain had condensed on the windows, covering the cracked windshield like a filmy overlay of lace.
From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken
In many Baltic cemeteries horses were buried separately from humans, but there are numerous examples of horses with overlain human cremations.
From Science Daily ● May 17, 2024
In the Arctic, the pole is covered by an ocean overlain by ice that spreads outward, but soon encounters and freezes onto land masses including the coasts of Alaska, Russia and Canada’s Arctic Islands.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 14, 2023
MTT’s was a series of overlain transparencies showing the electron shells of one of the higher elements, perhaps uranium.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2023
On Thursday, Weinstein lawyer Arthur Aidala walked in wearing a wild, light-colored suit with an overlain windowpane, plaid pattern.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 1, 2020
In all these legends the student of comparative folk-lore traces the ancient mythology, however overlain with later details.
From British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes
National Fuel Gas owns roughly 1.2 million acres in the Appalachian Basin, with substantial mineral ownership overlying the Marcellus and Utica shales.
From Barron's ● Jan. 23, 2026
This month, the researchers will return to Waesche, looking for more rocks that could confirm whether the loss of overlying ice caused Waesche to wake up.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 2, 2024
A wide residential and commercial block, known as "Region 9", is being cleared of several metres of overlying pumice and ash thrown out by Vesuvius almost 2,000 years ago.
From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2024
Cadiz owned 35,000 acres overlying a desert aquifer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2024
I nodded, my fingers finding the bare skin of his forearms, tracing the muscles and overlying veins there.
From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken
