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Most deep-sea trenches in the Pacific are floored by normal basaltic oceanic crust overlain by pelagic sediments and ash.
The Moine rocks are overlain unconformably by post-Caledonian, Old Red Sandstone sedimentary rocks.
These mid-Palaeozoic formations are unconformably overlain by the Carboniferous-Permian Pillahuinco Group.
The uppermost Guweyza, overlain by the Sid'r Formation, has yielded Oxfordian radiolarians in a more distal section.
These are overlain by low-grade metamorphosed sediments and volcanics of Ordovician and Silurian age.
The exposed serpentinite dome was surrounded and partly overlain by crustal blocks.
In contrast, in the section south of the turbidites the lavas dip steeply northwards, and basalts are overlain by andesites.
Basalt is commonly overlain by a sandstone-grit unit that locally grades upward into shale.
Here, the upper mudstone of the TST is erosively overlain by 3 m of bioturbated, clayey sandstone and mudstone.
Dark, lichen-covered rocks towered above us in near-vertical cliff faces, some overlain by frozen waterfalls.
The unconformity surface is overlain by sandstone, reworked chalk or tuff, and represents submarine or subaerial erosion and missing section.
The basal, coarse layer of a varve is commonly overlain by microlaminared silt and clay, reflecting variable streamflow during summer.
In Tertiary time, the Batain nappes were unconformably overlain by carbonate and elastic rocks.
The dorsal ligament groove is overlain dorsally and flanked laterally by the nacreous middle shell layer.
That unconformity is overlain by sandstones of the Puentelles Formation, dated as late Kasimovian based on its fossil flora.
Little has been published about the stratigraphic age of this group, which is abruptly overlain by these limestones.
The shallow soils are derived from fluvial gravel overlain by multiple ash deposits and aeolian dust.
These units are conformably overlain by fluvial and lacustrine volcaniclastic deposits, tuffs and hyaloclastites.
Volcanoes of the western Hungarian volcanic field also consistently comprise basal glassy pyroclastic units overlain by lavas that cap buttes.
The shallow soils are derived from fluvial gravel overlain by multiple Holocene volcanic ash deposits and aeolian dust.
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This series is overlain unconformably by a younger quartzite of similar character, and itself rests upon the crystalline schists.
There was one creature in the crowd that was not to be overlain by the others.
The deposits are overlain by several hundred feet of loose, water-bearing sands, through which it is difficult to sink a shaft.
They are often overlain by schists and quartzites, or broken through by volcanic masses.
The drawn, haggard mask that had overlain her face so many months was dissolved away in an utter unconsciousness.
A soft carpet, overlain with brown linen, is spread from the curbstone into the hall.
The nasal capsules are large and quite unossified though they are overlain by membrane bone.
The Keweenawan is composed of immense piles of lava, such as those of Iceland, overlain by bedded sandstones.
Large areas are overlain with trachyte, basalt, obsidian, tuff and pumice.
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