1An area of land bordering on another or lying in front of a particular feature.
前沿地，前地，前陆
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There is a cliff top walk to the foreland along the path leading from the old inn near Countisbury.
The glacier foreland is 2 km long with a chronosequence of developmental stages from recently deglaciated terrain to sites which have been ice-free for 145 years at the terminal moraine dated 1858.
Bars, forelands, and spits are attractive spots for development because they offer easy access to the beach.
Floodwater may contain higher carbon dioxide concentrations if the pH is sufficiently low, but both rice fields and river forelands are commonly submerged with water containing little carbon dioxide, e.g. in the range of 3-100 M.
Our finds were not the first ‘warm artifacts’ to be harvested from the forelands of retreating Swiss glaciers.
2A cape or promontory.
岬，海角
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Not content to rest solely on forelands in nearby Ulster, all three were prepared to sell to customers throughout Ireland.
Their fleets of ships fought and won battles from the coasts of Kerry to Mizen's wild foreland, to the Mull of Kintyre.
3Geology A stable unyielding block of the earth's crust, against which compression produces a folded mountain range.
〔地质〕地角
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Therefore, the Lewisian rocks from the Assynt terrane of the Caledonian foreland are an unlikely source for any of the sediment.
The early Carboniferous Northumberland Basin, NE England, is one of the northernmost basins that developed in the foreland of the Variscan orogenic belt.
The western limit of intense Caledonian deformation is defined by the Moine Thrust Zone, beyond which lies the Caledonian foreland.
In light of the Euro-African collision being the primary cause of the compressive stresses in the Alpine foreland it is more natural and reasonable to imagine a continuous inversion process rather than one with distinct pulses.
Siliciclastic sequences within or close to the Laurentian foreland of the Appalachian-Caledonian Orogen preserve a clear depositional contact with basement that constrains their site of accumulation to Laurentia.
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Westmorland
Definition of foreland in US English:
foreland
nounˈfɔrləndˈfôrlənd
1An area of land bordering on another or lying in front of a particular feature.
前沿地，前地，前陆
Example sentencesExamples
The glacier foreland is 2 km long with a chronosequence of developmental stages from recently deglaciated terrain to sites which have been ice-free for 145 years at the terminal moraine dated 1858.
Our finds were not the first ‘warm artifacts’ to be harvested from the forelands of retreating Swiss glaciers.
Bars, forelands, and spits are attractive spots for development because they offer easy access to the beach.
There is a cliff top walk to the foreland along the path leading from the old inn near Countisbury.
Floodwater may contain higher carbon dioxide concentrations if the pH is sufficiently low, but both rice fields and river forelands are commonly submerged with water containing little carbon dioxide, e.g. in the range of 3-100 M.
1.1A cape or promontory.
岬，海角
Example sentencesExamples
Their fleets of ships fought and won battles from the coasts of Kerry to Mizen's wild foreland, to the Mull of Kintyre.
Not content to rest solely on forelands in nearby Ulster, all three were prepared to sell to customers throughout Ireland.
1.2Geology A stable unyielding block of the earth's crust, against which compression produces a folded mountain range.
〔地质〕地角
Example sentencesExamples
The western limit of intense Caledonian deformation is defined by the Moine Thrust Zone, beyond which lies the Caledonian foreland.
The early Carboniferous Northumberland Basin, NE England, is one of the northernmost basins that developed in the foreland of the Variscan orogenic belt.
Therefore, the Lewisian rocks from the Assynt terrane of the Caledonian foreland are an unlikely source for any of the sediment.
In light of the Euro-African collision being the primary cause of the compressive stresses in the Alpine foreland it is more natural and reasonable to imagine a continuous inversion process rather than one with distinct pulses.
Siliciclastic sequences within or close to the Laurentian foreland of the Appalachian-Caledonian Orogen preserve a clear depositional contact with basement that constrains their site of accumulation to Laurentia.