overlie
verb (used with object)
to lie over or upon, as a covering or stratum.
are overlying
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present progressiveof overlie.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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The conditions favorable for trapping are overlying impervious beds bowed into anticlines, or other structural irregularities, due either to secondary deformation or to original deposition, which may arrest the oil in its upward course.
From The Economic Aspect of Geology by C. K. (Charles Kenneth) Leith
