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Foreland

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A headland.
  2. 2
    land forming the forward margin of something wordnet
  3. 3
    In plate tectonics, the zone adjacent to a mountain chain where material eroded from it is deposited.

    "Most foreland fold and thrust belts are linear or arcuate belts of folds and thrust faults that form a marginal part of an orogenic belt between an undeformed craton and a more intensely deformed inner zone."

  4. 4
    a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea) wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English foreland, equivalent to fore- + land.

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