underlain in English

verb
1
(especially of a layer of rock or soil) lie or be situated under (something).
Most of the mowed fields in the central part of the park are underlain with soil.

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1. The wetland is underlain by a layer of organic debris and hydromorphic soils, which in turn are underlain by an unconfined alluvial sand aquifer about 80 m thick.

2. 15 Their tectonic framework was basically underlain in early Pleistocene or late Pliocene.

3. The organic soil layer was underlain by discontinuous layers of sand and clay glacial till.

4. The Bornites are distributed nicely on the Dolomite crystal matrix, themselves underlain by Quartz crystals

5. We recognize a significant difference in landslide behavior in slopes underlain by thick and thin Colluvium

6. They are underlain by dark basalt in contrast to the gray andesite of the High Cascades.

7. It is underlain by sedimentary and metamorphic rock in contrast to the adjoining Cascades which are composed of volcanics.

8. Callus shows a markedly dense, usually orthokeratotic stratum corneum underlain by mild acathosis, variable hypergranulosis, and increased collagenization of the superficial dermis

9. The Humber River floodplain at Toronto is underlain by a 2.5 km long wedge of alluvium that thins upstream from Lake Ontario.

10. It is relatively unmetamorphosed, underlain by Hadrynian acoustic basement, and overlain along its eastern and southern margins by a Mesozoic–Cenozoic succession that is economically important from an oil and gas perspective.

11. Cap-rock falls and vertical barrier falls are typical erosion waterfalls, formed by differential erosion that occurs where erosion-resistant rocks are underlain by or adjoin softer rocks.

12. These observations (1) demonstrate the adverse effects of high pore pressures on the stability of slopes underlain by poorly indurated Tertiary rocks and (2) extend the known history of landslides involving these rocks back into the Pleistocene.