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What does overlain mean?

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  1. past participle of overlie
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The shallow soils are derived from fluvial gravel overlain by multiple Holocene volcanic ash deposits and aeolian dust.
These mid-Palaeozoic formations are unconformably overlain by the Carboniferous-Permian Pillahuinco Group.
The dorsal ligament groove is overlain dorsally and flanked laterally by the nacreous middle shell layer.
The Moine rocks are overlain unconformably by post-Caledonian, Old Red Sandstone sedimentary rocks.
Most deep-sea trenches in the Pacific are floored by normal basaltic oceanic crust overlain by pelagic sediments and ash.
That unconformity is overlain by sandstones of the Puentelles Formation, dated as late Kasimovian based on its fossil flora.

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