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What does overlying mean?

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Adjective
  1. lying over or upon something else
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Amygdaloidal cavities are located immediately below the uppermost scoriaceous part of the second flow, near its contact with the overlying flow.
Subsidence sinkholes are diagnostic landforms of karst, which form in unconsolidated soils or drift deposits overlying cavernous limestone.
There were ipsilateral matted axillary lymph nodes, and the overlying skin showed peau d' orange.
Leached residual soil and sediment of overlying strata occur within the dissolution pipes and pits.
Similar sediments, overlying a laterite soil and an associated silcrete horizon, are known from the Sidmouth area.
These light guides may take the form of three overlying plastic or glass sheets.

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