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    A foreland basin is a structural basin that develops adjacent and parallel to a mountain belt. Foreland basins form because the immense mass created by...
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    described as foreland-basin, delta-complex clastic wedges, which are responsible for the large volumes of sediment input into the Appalachian basin. The collision...
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    Molasse basin (or North Alpine foreland basin) is a foreland basin north of the Alps which formed during the Oligocene and Miocene epochs. The basin formed...
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    The Himalayan foreland basin is an active collisional foreland basin system in South Asia. Uplift and loading of the Eurasian Plate on to the Indian Plate...
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    these are present in all foreland-basin systems. The basin migrates with the orogenic front and early deposited foreland basin sediments become progressively...
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  • The Andean foreland basins or Sub-Andean basins are a group of foreland basins located in the western half of South America immediately east of the Andes...
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    x. DeCelles, Peter G.; Giles, Katherine A. (June 1996). "Foreland basin systems" (PDF). Basin Research. 8 (2): 105–123. Bibcode:1996BasR....8..105D. doi:10...
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  • in front of something Foreland basin, in geology, the zone that receives sediment from an adjacent mountain chain Glacier foreland, the area between the...
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    an area of 240,000 km2 (93,000 sq mi). The Arabian Plate basin a wedge-shaped foreland basin which lies beneath the western Zagros thrust and was created...
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    peninsular region. Foreland basin Forebulge https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14634988.2017.1304129 "Life in the Ganga - Brahmaputra Basin | Human Environment...
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