The upper part of the Tecovas consists of a layer of orange shale which overlies the middle sandstone unit and is in contact with the lower part of the Trujillo Formation.
The brick-earth is of great thickness, in places fully 50 feet, and overliesthe Chalk.
In places, the gravel overlies what appears to have been an old land-surface, in the mould of which fragments of branches of trees, and bones of ox and elephant, have been found uninjured and lying together.
Defn: Of or pertaining to the lowest division of the Cretaceous formation in England and on the Continent, which overlies the Oölitic series.
Defn: The waste which overlies good stone in a quarry.
In the succeeding stages the solid part of the oesophagus immediately adjoining the stomach is carried farther back relatively to the heart and overlies the front end of the liver.
The part of the oesophagus to undergo this peculiar change is that which overlies the heart, and extends from the front end of the stomach to the branchial region.
The section of the Wolffian duct which overlies the Wolffian body is much contorted, and in adult individuals at the generative period enormously so.
The ultimate branches form an intricate network of extremely delicate tubes, which penetrates or overlies every tissue.
The ejaculatory duct is about ·15 inch long, and overlies the 6th-9th sterna.
Of these the left is much the larger, and overlies the other.
Above this is an extended stratum of stratus cloud, which is found moving with the general or local current of the lower atmosphere which overlies the storm.
Brown had well said that "the country seems only a circlet of islands separated from one another by deep fiords or straits, and bound together on the landward side by the great ice covering which overlies the whole interior.
Ideal section showing how the till overlies the stratified rocks 56 23.
Ideal section, showing how the till overlies the stratified rocks.
It was not buried by the Philadelphia red gravel and brick-clay, but to a limited degree overlies and buries it.
Its post-glacial gorge, worn in sandstone which overlies soft shale, is only about two thousand feet in length, and it has as yet made no approach toward a V-shaped outlet.
It overlies glacial clays and gravels, and must have been transported bodily from the elevations containing this rock several miles to the northwest.
Fossil-bearing Carboniferous overlies them but no other indication of their age was obtained save their general position in the belt of schists already mentioned.
Above the red sandstones is a thick series of gray sandstones and silts which makes the top of the section and unconformably overlies the earlier series.
Already, perhaps, the melting ice has thrown down till and boulders upon those poles, a counterpart of the boulder clay whichoverlies the forest-bed on the Norfolk cliffs.
In Bohemia, the rich veins of silver of Joachimsthal cut through basalt containing olivine, which overlies tertiary lignite, in which are leaves of dicotyledonous trees.
In some places, and especially at Aymestry, in Herefordshire, a subcrystalline and argillaceous limestone, sometimes 50 feet thick, overlies the shale.
A ferruginous bed, rich in mammalian remains, and known as the Elephant bed, overlies the Forest Bed, of which it is considered by the Rev.
Part of the loess overlies the non-glacial materials of the great central plain, but the northern portions overlie the drift deposits of the first three glaciations.
Of or pertaining to the lowest division of the Cretaceous formation in England and on the Continent, which overlies the O\'94litic series.
He overlies the ages, as the long hulk of a great steamship overlies the waves of the sea, stretching from summit to summit.
Gregorio, the Pampean deposit, as we have seen, overlies and fills up furrows in coarse sand, precisely like that now accumulating on the shores near the mouth of the Plata.
As the black and fetid sand overlies the gravel, and that overlies the regular tertiary strata, I think there can be no doubt that these remarkable crystals of sulphate of lime have been deposited from the waters of the lake.
The deep layer is that which immediately overlies the posterior tibial and peronaeal vessels and nerves.
In the natural position of the vessels at that region of their course represented in the Plates, the vein A overlies the artery B, and also conceals most of the principal nerves.
Its upper and lower thirds are covered by large muscles; whilst the fascia and a quantity of adipose tissue overlies its middle.
The lax and pendulous cord, which in this case, overlies the upper part of the saphenous opening.
In the tuf de La Celle-sous-Moret the layer of 'loess' immediately overlies the tufa layer containing late Acheulean implements and proofs of a cooler climate.
This tufa, which is a hot-springs deposit, overlies river-gravels of Pleistocene age.
A pun, which is a kind of wit, is a different and much shallower trick in mental optics; throwing the shadows of two objects so that oneoverlies the other.
The principal one extends from the equator to high middle latitudes and partly overlies the other, which extends from the tropical calms to the polar circles.
The latter are well known to have the power of de-oxidising or dissolving per- oxide of iron, as may be seen wherever peat overlies red sand, or where a rotten root penetrates such sand.
In many districts where the land is nearly level, a bed several feet in thickness of red clay full of unworn flints overlies the Upper Chalk.
The Cromer Forest-bed overlies the Weybourn Crag, the marine fauna of which has a distinctly Arctic facies.
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