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How To Use foreland In A Sentence

• Instead, the whole of the Southern Uplands terrane shares clay mineral characteristics with the convergent, load-induced foreland basin sequence of the southern Lake District, the Windermere Supergroup.
• The oceanic island basalt is represented by the Nonghuai pillow lava, which is, originally Hawaii type one in the Paleotethyan ocean, an allochthon in the Indosinian foreland fold and thrust belt.
• The Queenes foreland, being an Island as we iudge, lying neere the supposed continent with America: and on the other side, opposite to the same, one other Island called Halles Isle, after the name of the Master of the ship, neere adiacent to the firme land, supposed continent with Asia. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I.
• The backstripped tectonic subsidence curves presented here indicate that the Late Carboniferous South Wales coalfield probably formed due to flexural loading in a foreland basin setting.
• He could see three cottages, a pair about a hundred yards from the Grange and a third standing alone higher on the foreland. She Closed Her Eyes
• Sasol Petroleum International (SPI) has obtained a 51 percent working interest in four hydrocarbon prospecting licences covering a land area of 37,000 square kilometres, close to established gas fields in the "foreland" area of Papua New Guinea. ANC Daily News Briefing
• Local unconformities and deposition in the foreland basin and intra-mountain synclinal basins occurred in discrete phases.
• In light of the Euro-African collision being the primary cause of the compressive stresses in the Alpine foreland it is more natural and reasonable to imagine a continuous inversion process rather than one with distinct pulses.
• The heads of bays, spits, and cuspate forelands provide breeding areas for fish such as sand lance and surf smelt.
• Distinctive rock types found on the westernmost nunataks around Hamberg Gletscher are interpreted as autochthonous Caledonian foreland.