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foreland basin

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foreland basin  (fôrlnd)
A low-lying region that is adjacent and parallel to a mountain belt formed as the result of the collision of tectonic plates. Foreland basins form when the lithosphere flexes downward in front of a mountain belt in response to the added load of thickened crust that results from the collision of the two plates. Sediments eroded from the mountain belt accumulate in the foreland basin, causing it to further subside and make room for additional sediments.


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The modern Georgia Basin, in part, overlaps two older sedimentary basins; a Late Cretaceous foreland basin preserved as the Nanaimo Group (Mustard, 1994; Mustard and Rouse, 1994; England and Bustin, 1998) and an early Tertiary non-marine basin dominated by the sedimentary rocks of the Chuckanut Formation (Johnson, 1984; Mustard and Rouse, 1994).
Environmental marine geoscience 4: Georgia basin: seabed features and ... by Picard, Kim / Geoscience Canada
The company and its partners were officially awarded PPL 192 (formerly PPL 178) in the western foreland basin in Jan.
REPEAT/ Indo-Pacific Energy corporate review by Business Wire
Out of the fifteen research papers, five deal with fold-thrust belts and associated intramontane or piggyback basins, three papers focus on foreland basins, three on rift and/or graben/half-graben basins, two concentrate on intracratonic basins, one presents the case study of a divergent continental margin, and one other deals with a fore-arc basin.
Tracing Tectonic Deformation Using the Sedimentary Record by Catuneanu, Octavian / Geoscience Canada
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