Word Finder - underlain

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To lie in a position directly beneath.

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To lie under or beneath.

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A stratum of clay underlies the surface gravel.

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To serve as a basis of; form the foundation of.

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a doctrine underlying a theory

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To be subject to; be liable to answer, as a charge or challenge.

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To underlay.

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

The town is built on high ground underlain by solid limestone, and has much natural and architectural beauty.

Speleological Potential Of Turkey About one third of Turkey is underlain by carbonate rocks.

Much of Shaftesbury's career, increasingly so as it came near its close, is incapable of defence; but it has escaped most of his critics that his life up to the Restoration, apparently full of inconsistencies, was evidently guided by one leading principle, the determination to uphold the supremacy of parliament, a principle which, however obscured by self-interest, appears also to have underlain his whole political career.

This forms part of the plain of the St Lawrence, underlain by Palaeozoic limestones and shales, with some sandstone, all furnishing useful building material and working up into a good soil.

This deposit varies in thickness, as a rule, from 55 to 70 ft., at which depth it is underlain by a series of coarse and fine yellow quartz sands, with occasional pebbles, or even banks of gravel, while here and there thin beds of clay occur.

This idea, which has underlain all Christian philosophy of history, from the first apologists who prophesied the fall of the Empire and the coming of the millennium, down to our own day, received its classic statement in St Augustine's City of God.

Below the cretaceous Tertiary escarpment, the low ground is underlain by soft sedimentary rocks of the Triassic Mercia Mudstone Group.

The drift geology map for this LCA shows a landscape that is largely underlain by Late Midlandian till.

They are underlain by Jurassic rocks, from beneath which sandstones and shales yielding Glossopteris browniana var.

Most of the plains are underlain by Cretaceous and early Tertiary shales and sandstones lying nearly unaltered and undisturbed where they were deposited, although now raised far above sea-level, particularly along the border of the Rocky Mountains where they were thrust up into foot-hills when the range itself was raised.