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verb
- 1. present participle of overlie
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1 day ago · Sheeting occurs when large sheets of rock dome upward and peel off when overlying rocks are eroded away, decreasing pressure. Biological activity can also cause mechanical weathering of rocks when living things such as the roots of plants or bacteria cause rocks to break apart.
1 day ago · Clear and simple definitions in American English from Britannica's language experts. More usage examples than any other dictionary.
2 days ago · science, any system of knowledge that is concerned with the physical world and its phenomena and that entails unbiased observations and systematic experimentation. In general, a science involves a pursuit of knowledge covering general truths or the operations of fundamental laws.
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- Observing the natural world and paying attention to its patterns has been part of human history from the very beginning. However, studying nature t...
- Science uses mathematics extensively as a powerful tool in the further understanding of phenomena. Sometimes scientific discoveries have inspired m...
- All peoples have studied the natural world, but most ancient peoples studied it for practical purposes, such as paying attention to natural cycles...
2 days ago · One process is the hydration melting of mantle peridotite followed by fractional crystallization. Water from a subducting slab rises into the overlying mantle, lowering its melting point, particularly for the more silica-rich minerals. Fractional crystallization further enriches the magma in silica.
3 days ago · Structure and Anatomy. The skin is a highly complex organ that serves as the body’s protective outer layer. It consists of multiple layers and specialized structures that support its various roles. Below is a detailed breakdown of the anatomy of the skin: Layers of the Skin.
2 days ago · In geometry, a Platonic solid is a convex, regular polyhedron in three-dimensional Euclidean space. Being a regular polyhedron means that the faces are congruent (identical in shape and size) regular polygons (all angles congruent and all edges congruent), and the same number of faces meet at each vertex. There are only five such polyhedra:
2 days ago · Today, throughout the world, poetry often incorporates poetic form and diction from other cultures and from the past, further confounding attempts at definition and classification that once made sense within a tradition such as the Western canon.
