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Interadambulacral contact facets lie beneath the ambulacral and overlie tissue depressions for the longitudinal muscles that lower the arm.
In the absence of Behcet's disease, intracardiac thrombus is often found to overlie an akinetic myocardial segment.
Wetlands may overlie important groundwater aquifers, especially on moraines, eskers, and fluvioglacial deposits.
They also noted that much kaolin is in or near decomposed porphyry bodies that overlie the largest ore shoots in the Leadville Dolomite.
These often overlie distal bayhead delta mouthbar facies, and commonly have a sharp erosive base.
Both overlie a pronounced angular unconformity and both are predominantly fluvial deposits.
Despite the density of burials in the immediate area, no interments overlie the stone pavement.
Uppermost Permian and Triassic terrestrial sediments conformably overlie the terminal volcanic rocks.
This tidal delta origin is also supported by the observation that the succession does not overlie any regional incision surface.
One or more additional layers of shorter feathers may overlie the proximal parts of the flight primaries and secondaries.
Typically they overlie pressure areas, including elbows, fingers, and Achilles, ischial, and sacral prominences.
These quaternary deposits unconformable overlie generally the Middle Eocene rocks and underlie unconformable the Holocene sediments.
The alluvial sediments of the area overlie the Vindhyan rocks in an unconformable way.
Nearly all agricultural areas and much of San Antonio, the only urban area large enough to affect water quality regionally, overlie the confined zone rather than the recharge zone.
A westward thickening wedge of Cretaceous-Tertiary strata overlie a broad Lower Paleozoic syncline.
Extensive peat deposits, 1 to 3 m thick, overlie poorly drained, flat lying glaciolacustrine sediments and Cochrane Till.
Younger sandstones, about 85 to 35 million years old, overlie these rocks and form many of the hills in Vancouver and Burnaby.
These surficial materials overlie a bedrock comprising igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks of Lower Devonian age.
The plates, or lithosphere, overlie an asthenosphere that responds like a viscous fluid to the plate motions.
Most northerly of Canada's exploration regions, the Arctic Islands overlie one of Canada's largest petroliferous basins.
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Yet something like this confusion seems to overlie the discussion of economics in connection with war.
Marls and limestones with fossils of an Eocene facies overlie the Cretaceous rocks on the Gabun.
Thick Tertiary deposits, probably Miocene, overlie the middle portions of the west coast.
These mountains are believed to overlie vast store of subterranean wealth in the form of petroleum.
The feathers which overlie the whole body and bear the color pattern are called contour-feathers.
The older deposits often occupy very elevated districts, which they overlie throughout a large extent of surface.
The rocks that overlie the coal measures contain fossils of these gigantic animals.
These rocks have suffered thrusting and the shales are thus made in places to overlie the sandstones.
The lateral parts of the nuchal overlie the second pair of ribs.
The pineal process grows forwards so as to overlie the parapineal process.
Usually they enfeeble the sympathies, and often overlie and smother them.
The combined size of the five anomalies is more than double the combined size of the mercury anomalies that overlie the drill proven deposits in the area.
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