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Example sentences for "underlain"

Lexicographically close words:
undergrowth; underhand; underhanded; underived; underlaid; underland; underlay; underlaying; underlet; underlie
  1. Most of the land adjacent to the route is underlain with deposits of lignite, and on many farms the winter's fuel is easily obtained by a little digging.

  2. The greatest destruction occurred in areas where roads and elevated structures were built on unstable ground underlain by loose, unconsolidated soils.

  3. Other things being equal, which will afford the larger proportion of run-off, a region underlain with granite rock or with coarse sandstone?

  4. Such fossil lakes are marked by swamps or level meadows underlain with muck.

  5. In the Belt Mountains of Montana, however, the Cambrian is underlain by Algonkian sediments twelve thousand feet thick, and but little altered.

  6. The ore bodies consist chiefly of the red oxide of iron (hematite) and occur in troughs of the strata, underlain by some impervious rock.

  7. In the Nova Scotia field, out of seventy-six distinct coal seams, twenty are underlain by old forest grounds.

  8. He had seen too much of human misery to be habitually jocose, and his whole nature was underlain by a groundwork of melancholy.

  9. Yet all the while the poetic rapture was underlain by a groundwork of robust sense.

  10. Investigations by the Geological Survey have shown that considerable areas of public lands suitable for agricultural purposes are underlain with more or less valuable beds of coal.

  11. Her vast fields of lignite coal underlain with valuable clays have been withdrawn from homestead entry, and hereafter only surface rights in these lands will be granted.

  12. Vancouver Island is underlain with it; today, while the railroad companies with which I am connected bought coal lands on Puget Sound, which they still own, we are prepared to burn oil from California instead of coal.

  13. The whole of the country from Edmonton northwesterly to Arctic ocean in Mackenzie valley, Professor Macoun explained, is underlain by Devonian or cretaceous rock, and by the disintegration of these rocks good soil is produced always.

  14. Mephitis mephitica) are all found in greater or less abundance in the rolling wooded country underlain by Archaean rocks.

  15. For forty miles north of Cape Eskimo no rock in place was seen, and thence northward to Baird bay some of the points were seen to consist of granite and gneiss, though the shore generally was underlain by Huronian rocks.

  16. A Large District Underlain By Keewatin and Huronian Rocks “Has Large Possibilities.

  17. A Large District Underlain By Keewatin and Huronian Rocks Which “Has Large Possibilities.

  18. The surrounding country is underlain by a light-brownish red sandstone and gray slate clay in horizontal strata, cut here and there by dykes of greenstone.

  19. To the south the country, underlain by limestone, has many of the characters of the northern part of old Manitoba.

  20. Tyrrell, in one of his reports, describes the Barren Lands as consisting “very largely of rolling plains, underlain by stony till and covered with short grass or sedge.

  21. They are underlain by rounded bosses of especially resistant rock.

  22. It covers a fairly smooth, gently sloping platform underlain by a heavy lava bed, and breaking off at its lower edge in precipitous, columnar cliffs.

  23. Planting upon land having a loose, sandy surface soil underlain by a well-drained clay subsoil will tend to produce the type of rather thick, spindle-formed potato that commands the highest price.

  24. Soils containing considerable calcium or underlain with limestone are well adapted to the growing of the crop.

  25. It is usually both underlain and overlain by red sandstones and marls, but sometimes, as at Stagbury and Woodbury Hills, &c.

  26. The Bunter or lower Trias, consists in the Midland areas of a mass of pebble beds or conglomerate, usually underlain and overlain by variegated sandstones.

  27. The area immediately underlain by the Coal measures constitutes the district of the “Black Country,” which extends from the western margin of Birmingham to the fringe of Cannock Chase.

  28. The plain is underlain in great part by the comparatively homogeneous flat lying Keuper marls, with their intercalated bands of harder sandstones.

  29. The Porters clay consists of from 6 to 12 inches of a brown or reddish-brown loam, underlain by a heavy red loam or clay loam.

  30. This material is underlain by a subsoil of yellow silt loam slightly heavier than the soil.

  31. The Penn stony loam consists of from 8 to 12 inches of a red or grayish heavy loam, somewhat silty, underlain by a heavier red loam.

  32. The Loudoun sandy loam consists of from 8 to 12 inches of a heavy brown or gray sandy loam, underlain by a heavy yellow or red loam or clay loam.

  33. Where the fewer stones are found the soil is not so sandy, but a light loam, yellow or brown in color, underlain by a deep yellow loam subsoil.

  34. The Penn loam consists of from 8 to 12 inches of a dark, Indian-red loam, underlain by a heavier loam of the same color.

  35. Arches National Park is surrounded by active uranium and vanadium mines and by many test wells for oil, gas, and potash; it is underlain by extensive salt and potash deposits.

  36. Wingate is underlain to river level by weathered slope of the Chinle Formation.

  37. The exposed rocks of the region are nearly horizontal layers of limestone underlain with shales.

  38. Less than 500 square miles are there underlain by workable anthracite coal.

  39. The whole region is underlain by nearly horizontal and undisturbed rocks of the Palaeozoic from the Devonian downward.

  40. Cane Creek anticline is underlain by about 5,200 feet of salt-bearing rocks in the Paradox Member of the Hermosa Formation (fig.

  41. High cliffs on right are Wingate Sandstone capped by Kayenta Formation and underlain by slopes of Chinle and Moenkopi Formations.

  42. Red beds near top are Rico Formation, overlain by Cedar Mesa Sandstone and underlain by unnamed upper member of Hermosa Formation.

  43. The Navajo is underlain by the cliff-forming Kayenta Formation and Wingate Sandstone resting upon a sloping base of the Chinle Formation and, farther downstream, ledges and slopes of the Moenkopi Formation.


  44. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "underlain" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.