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What does overlain mean?

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  1. past participle of overlie
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In Tertiary time, the Batain nappes were unconformably overlain by carbonate and elastic rocks.
The shallow soils are derived from fluvial gravel overlain by multiple ash deposits and aeolian dust.
These mid-Palaeozoic formations are unconformably overlain by the Carboniferous-Permian Pillahuinco Group.
Little has been published about the stratigraphic age of this group, which is abruptly overlain by these limestones.
These units are conformably overlain by fluvial and lacustrine volcaniclastic deposits, tuffs and hyaloclastites.
The shallow soils are derived from fluvial gravel overlain by multiple Holocene volcanic ash deposits and aeolian dust.

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