The layer of golden earth in turn rests upon a layer of water, which is 8,000,000 yojanas in depth, going down to 8,400,000 yojanas below sea level.

Between the water and the floor rested a layer of scum-coated metal and masonry.

Her costume was constructed like a Mayan temple: layers rested on layers upon layers.

A fine layer of dust rests on everything.

On this deep bony layer rested a knife of great size, obvious antiquity, and grotesque, ornate, and exotic design - above which the debris was piled.

In a broad cement circle, layers of black-green turtles rested on top of each other haphazardly - like pieces of a fieldstone wall.

This layer rests upon a brown deposit known to be ten feet in thickness.

The smooth sides of the ingots faced downwards, and the lowest layer rested on brushwood.

The top layer rests on a thick sequence of Eocene shale and sandstone known as the Green River and Wasatch Formations.

The outermost layer rests on a thickened basement membrane, the dermis.