foreland
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He sent a foreland long beyond the baseline, giving Tiafoe the win.
From Washington Times • Aug. 5, 2022
The area that the meteorite struck was the North Alpine foreland basin, a low point in Earth’s surface where a package of sediments was being deposited and, over geologic timescales, compressed into rock.
From Scientific American • Aug. 9, 2019
A foreland basin is a feature that develops near mountain belts, as the combined mass of the mountains forms a depression in the lithospheric plate.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017
The western edge of the basin, which has about 4,500 m of Mesozoic rock alone, is a foreland basin.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
We others cut down timber on the foreland, on a high point, and built his pyre of logs, then stood by weeping while the flame burnt through corse and equipment.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
