Sarah Parcak

The only technology that can 'see' beneath the ground is radar imagery. But satellite imagery also allows scientists to map short- and long-term changes to the Earth's surface. Buried archaeological remains affect the overlying vegetation, soils and even water in different ways, depending on the landscapes you're examining.

American Scientist

Jim Elliot

What a brutish master sin is, taking the joy from one's life, stealing money and health, giving promise of tomorrow's pleasures, and finally leading one onto the rotten planking that overlies the mouth of the pit.

American Clergyman

Bryson DeChambeau

There is this overlying principle of a two-to-one carb-to-protein ratio, so that is first and foremost. I try and retain that throughout the whole day with everything I eat and drink.

American Athlete

Think visually, picturing one thing resting directly on top of another.

Visual Imagery

It can be used metaphorically to describe one thing overshadowing another.

Not Always Literal

It often suggests hiding something intentionally or unintentionally.

Concealment Tone

The item on top doesn't have to hide the underlying object completely.

Partial Concealment

Used in geology to explain relationships between strata or rock layers.

Technical Context

In a technical context, refers to natural phenomena, not human-constructed layers.

Not Human-Made

 this new sweet spot of the new Goldilocks zone, where it's got just the right amount of tidal energy dissipation to sustain this liquid water ocean in contact with a rocky seafloor so that it can have the elements and energy needed for life, and it's overlain by an ice shell

Life Beyond Earth, Part...

 That lowers the magma's melting point and makes it rise into the overlying North American plate. From a subterranean chamber, the magma travels upwards and erupts along a chain of volcanos. Magma still deep underground slowly cools, crystallizing to form solid rock,

How North America got...

 And it's going to deliver abundant power and unprecedented bandwidth across this entire volume -- in the overlying ocean, on the sea floor and below the sea floor. Bandwidth and power and a wide variety of processes that will be operating.

Overlie

Visual Imagery

Not Always Literal

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