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Subsidence rates in foreland basins decrease away from the orogenic load, and are generally higher than those in extensional basins.
Distinctive rock types found on the westernmost nunataks around Hamberg Gletscher are interpreted as autochthonous Caledonian foreland.
Their fleets of ships fought and won battles from the coasts of Kerry to Mizen's wild foreland, to the Mull of Kintyre.
A foreland fold-thrust belt with a southwestward vergence formed south of the Mazar-Kangxiwar fault.
In the study area, the surface geology of the foreland fold and thrust belt is dominated by the south Urals accretionary complex.
There is a cliff top walk to the foreland along the path leading from the old inn near Countisbury.
Local unconformities and deposition in the foreland basin and intra-mountain synclinal basins occurred in discrete phases.
The western limit of intense Caledonian deformation is defined by the Moine Thrust Zone, beyond which lies the Caledonian foreland.
Therefore, the Lewisian rocks from the Assynt terrane of the Caledonian foreland are an unlikely source for any of the sediment.
Waves and currents sort these materials, and deposit them on a bar, spit, cuspate foreland, tombolo, or beach.
Turbidite deposits and westward younging of limestones and evaporites record the development of the foreland fold and thrust belt during the Late Carboniferous Epoch.
The early Carboniferous Northumberland Basin, NE England, is one of the northernmost basins that developed in the foreland of the Variscan orogenic belt.
Membership of the new regime of the foreland and the low valleys contrasted with the reserve and even hostility of the mountain.
A close relationship exists between land access to sea ports on the one hand and the maritime organisation and foreland on the other.
However, if imbricate structures of folds are truncated by low-angle thrusts, the decapitated upper portions of the systems should be found, carried off towards the foreland.
This cuspate foreland on Oak Island in Apostle Islands National Lakeshore is one of many coastal features comprising the park's 17 significant sandscapes.
The strong interdependency between a port's foreland and hinterland is very apparent when considering the rise of containerisation and intermodality.
The foreland basin forms ahead of the orogen due mainly to loading and resulting flexure of the lithosphere by the developing mountain belt.
The basin migrates with the orogenic front and early deposited foreland basin sediments become progressively involved in folding and thrusting.
When the convergent movement of the two plates results in continental collision, the basin becomes shallower and develops into a foreland basin.
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It was the first time the girl had seen him since their arrival at foreland Farms.
The sun, though up and brisk already upon sea and foreland, had not found time to rout the shadows skulking in the dingles.
Attica, a foreland, extending towards the south-east, and gradually diminishing.
Murtagh Skeel had not come to foreland Farms, and there was no word from him.
He writes from the foreland on August 25, that the season was too late.
He held her in his arms in the car all the way to foreland Farms.
Mate says we must be past Straits of Dover, as in a moment of fog lifting he saw North Foreland, just as he heard the man cry out.
For lack of wind they tarried at Foreland, and went to land for to refresh them.
Then the South Foreland lights begin to hiccup at us in a way that bodes no good.
Number 1 was The Foreland mountains, Assynt, 2nd was the Iron Bridge Gorge near Telford and 3rd was Siccar Point in Scotland.
The North Foreland was passed and a course shaped for Boulogne.
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