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What is a foreland?

What is a foreland? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A headland.
  2. (geology) In plate tectonics, the zone adjacent to a mountain chain where material eroded from it is deposited.
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Subsidence rates in foreland basins decrease away from the orogenic load, and are generally higher than those in extensional basins.
Their fleets of ships fought and won battles from the coasts of Kerry to Mizen's wild foreland, to the Mull of Kintyre.
Membership of the new regime of the foreland and the low valleys contrasted with the reserve and even hostility of the mountain.
In the study area, the surface geology of the foreland fold and thrust belt is dominated by the south Urals accretionary complex.
Local unconformities and deposition in the foreland basin and intra-mountain synclinal basins occurred in discrete phases.
A foreland fold-thrust belt with a southwestward vergence formed south of the Mazar-Kangxiwar fault.

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