foreland

IPA: fˈɔrɫʌnd

A headland.
(geology) In plate tectonics, the zone adjacent to a mountain chain where material eroded from it is deposited.

Examples of "foreland" in Sentences

Lichens/Lichenes of the Bialowieza Forest and its western foreland.
As for the sediments themselves, they are pretty much what we would expect to see in a terrestrial foreland basin.
He could see three cottages, a pair about a hundred yards from the Grange and a third standing alone higher on the foreland.
It recently obtained a 51 percent working interest in four hydrocarbon prospecting licenses in the "foreland" area of Papua New
They are not very much different from the sediments we can observe in the currently active foreland basin associated with the Andes.
S.W. side of Prince of Wales's Foreland, another inlet into Royal Sound; and it then appeared, that the foreland was the E. point of a large island lying in the mouth of it.
And this is the furthest place that this yeere we haue entred vp within the streits, and is reckoned from the Cape of the Queenes foreland, which is the entrance of the streites not aboue 30 leagues.
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.