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[ UK /fˈɔːlənd/ ]
NOUN
  1. land forming the forward margin of something
  2. a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea)

How To Use foreland In A Sentence

  • In addition, a huge thickness of foredeep clastic rock in southern foreland basin is a favorable place of exploration of deep-basin gas and carbon dioxide gas pools.
  • Floodwater may contain higher carbon dioxide concentrations if the pH is sufficiently low, but both rice fields and river forelands are commonly submerged with water containing little carbon dioxide, e.g. in the range of 3-100 M.
  • Waves and currents sort these materials, and deposit them on a bar, spit, cuspate foreland, tombolo, or beach.
  • They are not very much different from the sediments we can observe in the currently active foreland basin associated with the Andes. Castle Rock - South Table Mountain - The Panda's Thumb
  • As for the sediments themselves, they are pretty much what we would expect to see in a terrestrial foreland basin. Castle Rock - South Table Mountain - The Panda's Thumb
  • Bars, forelands, and spits are attractive spots for development because they offer easy access to the beach.
  • Generally, foreland basins show convex-up subsidence curves due to increasing subsidence rates through time resulting from migration of a supra-crustal orogenic load towards the foreland.
  • Foreland is concentration of Fujian Province population, economy developeds area.
  • Foreland migration of the basin edge was related to foreland-directed migration of the orogenic load.
  • The Effingham beach ridges are distinctive in that they show a series of cuspate forelands of dimension similar to Merritt Island and Cape Canaveral.
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