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Meanings of overlying stratum in English

Stratum that another stratum lies under.

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Examples for "underlying stratum"
Examples for "underlying stratum"
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Except where there is an underlying stratum of sand or gravel beneath hard pan, the drill has to go through rock.
If You're Going to Live in the Country
2
No language can be agglutinative without clinging with its roots to the underlying stratum of isolation.-'On the Stratification of Language,' p. 20.
The Coming Race
Usage of overlying stratum in English
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The latter is the case: for the overlying stratum is intensely baked along the zone of contact.
The Elements of Geology
2
The overlying stratum, as well as that beneath, has been affected by the heat of the once molten rock.
The Elements of Geology
3
This is the case in the Grand Canyon, where the limestone wall is colored red by the iron in an overlying stratum.
Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania
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