flat-lying

It has been described as a land of layered, flat-lying sedimentary rock.

It is usually used for relatively flat-lying deposits, such as those that follow a particular stratum.

Around the flat-lying wreckage of a ship, a few huts clustered.

Abundant, shallow craters filled with smooth, flat-lying deposits are common.

The Poconos are a flat-lying plateau that's dissected by streams.

Flat-lying beds are cherished perks, since few business travelers have sampled them.

Manhartsberg is a low, flat-lying mountain ridge in Lower Austria.

The deposit is essentially flat-lying at the surface, making open pit mining the extraction method of choice.

The flat-lying seams were easier to mine than those found in more mountainous areas, with lower levels of methane gas.

Underlying the thin soil layer, are flat-lying sedimentary rocks.

This provides a rationale for recognising flat-lying thrust slices and mapping them in the subsurface.

Both are flat-lying, fossiliferous formations dating from the Cretaceous Period.

Flat-lying and non-deformed sandstone that must have been deposited after the impact event is exposed within the crater's center.

The cave formed in a vertical, 20 metre high limestone cliff made up of flat-lying Coniacian.

Dwarf Naupaka is a low, flat-lying perennial herb.

Coal balls vary in shape from imperfectly spherical to flat-lying, irregular slabs.

They suggest that the flat tops indicates that the strata within the center of this feature is flat-lying and undisturbed.

The rocks of the region are essentially little disturbed, flat-lying sedimentary layers of the Paleozoic age.

This trough had made coral reefs that were once flat-lying to a more slated coral reef.

The group is therefore mainly flat-lying, yet in some places (like near Champeaux it dips 5 to the SW.

Most of the rock strata of Canyonlands National Park are flat-lying or gently dipping.

The almost flat-lying sandstones of the Triassic unconformably overlie the older rocks which tend to dip to the south.

Heart Peaks is made of flat-lying basaltic and trachybasaltic lava flows and pyroclastic rocks.

Ring anticline The ring surrounds the impact site, separating it from the surrounding flat-lying regional bedrock.

However, the Sr atoms of donnayite have 9-fold coordination with an extra layer of flat-lying carbonate groups.