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Foreland

British pronunciation/fˈɔːlənd/
American pronunciation/fˈɔːɹlənd/
Foreland
[NOUN]
1

a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea)

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2

land forming the forward margin of something

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Examples
1And when the Mesopotamian civilizations were emerging around 3,000 BC on the other side of the planet, around in India, in an identical tectonic setting, in the foreland basin, the tectonic trough running alongside the Himalayan mountain range, the Indus Valley civilization was popping up around the same time.
2There’s one line that says, he fared over the fords by the forelands over at the Holy Head till he again, took land in the wilderness of Wirrel.
3The reason agriculture became so productive and civilization emerged here is because the Earth had created the conditions that made it very, very simple, because of this foreland basin sagging down alongside that mountain range.
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