Definition of Forelands. Meaning of Forelands. Synonyms of Forelands

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Definition of Forelands

Foreland
Foreland Fore"land`, n. 1. A promontory or cape; a headland; as, the North and South Foreland in Kent, England. 2. (Fort.) A piece of ground between the wall of a place and the moat. --Farrow. 3. (Hydraul. Engin.) That portion of the natural shore on the outside of the embankment which receives the stock of waves and deadens their force. --Knight.

Meaning of Forelands from wikipedia

- Look up foreland in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Foreland may refer to: a landform projecting into the sea, such as a headland or a promontory an...
- shape. Some cuspate forelands may be stabilised by vegetation, while others may migrate down the s****line. Because some cuspate forelands provide an important...
- Coast Forelands from Caledon west to Mossel Bay; the south-eastern end of the Little Karoo; Langkloof valley; and the Southeastern Coast Forelands west...
- A foreland basin is a structural basin that develops adjacent and parallel to a mountain belt. Foreland basins form because the immense m**** created by...
- Foreland or Forelands, and the adjacent Foreland Fields (50°40′57″N 1°04′36″W / 50.68250°N 1.07667°W / 50.68250; -1.07667), is the easternmost point...
- layers of the sub-Hercynian depression in the rolling hills of the Harz Foreland; south of the Harz, Permian sediments lie flat on southwest-dipping Palaeozoic...
- Sudetes Foothills or Sudeten Foreland (Polish: Przedgórze Sudeckie, Czech: Krkonošsko-jesenické podhůří or older Sudetské podhůří, German: Sudetenvorland)...
- Tapsell Foreland (70°52′S 167°20′E / 70.867°S 167.333°E / -70.867; 167.333 (Tapsell Foreland)) is a borad, mostly snow-covered foreland jutting into...
- to contractional tectonics. Fold and thrust belts commonly form in the forelands adjacent to major orogens as deformation propagates outwards. Fold and...
- 51°16′30″N 1°25′12″E / 51.275°N 1.420°E / 51.275; 1.420 The Battle of Sandwich, also called the Battle of Dover took place on 24 August 1217 as part...