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foreland::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | head, headland, promontory |
| Type of | elevation, natural elevation |
| Has types | point, mull |
foreland::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | ground, earth, dry land, terra firma, solid ground, land |
Examples of foreland
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Thrust faults occur in the foreland basin which occur marginal to orogenic belts.
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The Rhenohercynian Zone is a part of the northern foreland of the Hercynian orogen.
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In a house perched on a Japanese foreland under torrential rain, family tragedy strikes.
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Isostatic subsidence of the foreland resulted in the development of a deep foreland basin.
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Cows'milk was used systematically from 3400 BC onwards in the northern Alpine foreland.
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Culmination of the cratonic collision resulted in the foreland sedimentary Padbury Basin.
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If the individual displacements are greater still, then the horses have a foreland dip.
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That between the cuspate foreland and the tombolo is a British bay.
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In Bolivia, the foreland basin can be more than three miles deep.
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- Promontory: a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea)
- Land forming the forward margin of something
- Foreland is the easternmost point of the Isle of Wight. It is located five kilometres east of the town of Brading, and due south of the city of Portsmouth on the British mainland. ...
- A headland; In plate tectonics, the zone adjacent to a mountain chain where material eroded from it is deposited
- A stable area marginal to an orogenic belt, toward which the rocks of the belt were thrust or overfolded. Generally the foreland is a continental part of the crust, and is the edge of the craton or platform area.
- A maritime space with which a port performs commercial relationships. It includes overseas customers with which the port undertakes commercial exchanges.
- The ground immediately ahead of a mountain range which has yet to be involved in the orogeny (or perhaps it never will/was). A current foreland area are the plains of the river Ganges, ahead of the Himalayas in India, or that part of Europe northwestwards of the Alps. ...
- (foirland), a front tenement or house.
- Cabo; promontorio; tierra de enfrente
