Stratum that another stratum lies over.
Antônimos
Examples for "overlying stratum"
Examples for "overlying stratum"
1The latter is the case: for the overlying stratum is intensely baked along the zone of contact.
2The overlying stratum, as well as that beneath, has been affected by the heat of the once molten rock.
3This is the case in the Grand Canyon, where the limestone wall is colored red by the iron in an overlying stratum.
1Except where there is an underlying stratum of sand or gravel beneath hard pan, the drill has to go through rock.
2No language can be agglutinative without clinging with its roots to the underlying stratum of isolation.-'On the Stratification of Language,' p. 20.
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