Sentence examples for foreland from inspiring English sources
The word "foreland" is correct and usable in written English
You can use the word "foreland" to refer to a piece of land located in front of or forming the leading edge of something larger. For example: "The shoreline near the foreland was a popular spot for picnics."
The collision of those blocks also produced a series of peripheral foreland basins, which were the result of crustal deformation and the stacking of slices of basement rocks in the orogenic areas.
Most of the inland area south of the peninsular foreland and the Chota Nagpur plateau is characterized by rolling terrain and generally low relief, within which a number of hill ranges, some of them mesalike formations, run in various directions.
To the east of the peninsular foreland lies the mineral-rich Chota Nagpur plateau region (mostly within Jharkhand, northwestern Odisha [Orissa], and Chhattisgarh states).
The second region, north of that forbidding complex of mountains, is the zone of foreland hills, about 12 to 25 miles (19 to 40 km) wide and rising to 2,000 3,000 feet (600 900 metres).
Downstream the Rhine flows swiftly between the Alpine foreland and the Black Forest region, its course interrupted by rapids, where as at Laufenburg Switzerlandd) and Säckingen and Schwörstadt (Germany)—barrages (dams) have been built.
It consists of the rolling plains of the Kulunda Steppe in the west, the Salair Ridge in the east, and the foreland of the Altai Mountains in the southeast.
The earliest known rocks originated as sedimentary deposits some 545 million to 540 million years ago, at the close of Precambrian time (4.6 billion to 541 million years ago) and the beginning of the Cambrian Period (541 million to 485 million years ago); their source area was probably the continental forelands of Australia and Antarctica, then part of a nearby single supercontinent.
Certain sediment forelands, such as spits, points, and tombolos (which connect an island with a mainland), also occasionally are called beaches.
Lying in a hollow formed by the River Sid, the town is shut in by hills that terminate in the forelands of Salcombe Hill and Peak Hill, two sheer sandstone cliffs of deep red colour.
Within this basic framework, Kenya is divided into the following geographic regions: the Lake Victoria basin, the Rift Valley and associated highlands, the eastern plateau forelands, the semiarid and arid areas of the north and south, and the coast.
The eastern plateau forelands, located just east of the Rift highlands, constitute a vast plateau of ancient rocks gently sloping to the coastal plain.
