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foreland

[′fȯr·lənd]
(geography)
An extensive area of land jutting out into the sea.
(geology)
A lowland area onto which piedmont glaciers have moved from adjacent mountains.
A stable part of a continent bordering an orogenic or mobile belt.
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The Khisor Thrust demarcates the northwestern proximity of the Punjab Foreland and is predominantly underlain by the shallow marine rocks of Permian to Triassic age in the vicinity of Bilot.
Frontal structural style of the Khisor Range, northwest of Bilot: Implications for hydrocarbon potential of the northwestern Punjab Fore Deep, Pakistan
I'm already talking about having a practice round with one of the guys from the club at North Foreland who has qualified.
Golf: Cousins sweats on Open dream; Aberdare student claims first reserve spot for Royal St George's -and he may even carry his own bag
Hopes that England international Simon Young, who played in last year's Open at Muirfield, would make it a Cumbrian hat-trick were dashed when he shot 76 at North Foreland.
Duo heading the charge for a place in the Open
Many of them are foreland and hinterland verging, bounding tight anticlines of Cretaceous and younger strata as pop-ups.
Tectonic map of the centeral Sulaiman fold belt and its structural implications
Hydrocarbons are being explored in the Salt Range and Potwar Plateau (SRPP), the Himalayan foreland in North Pakistan, since more than a hundred years.
Hydrocarbon prospects and reserves in Salt Range/Potwar Plateau
ERIC and Gwendoline Baker, of Foreland Way, Keresley, celebrated their diamond wedding yesterday.
Congratulations; The good news column for you, and by you... the readers
At nearby North Foreland, Welsh amateur star Cousins tees off with big-hitting Argentine Jorge Berendt and former European Tour pro Andrew Sherborne (Bristol) with a dream spot in the Open at stake.
GOLF: COUSINS EYES OPEN; Aberdare amateur hunts a dream place in Major
Variant analysis and planning of engineering structures in the foreland area of ?
Engineering design services for the construction of civil engineering works
Kinematic compatibility in orogens: Linking the Himalayan foreland and hinterland in central Nepal.
Himalayan hinterland-verging superstructure folds related to foreland-directed infrastructure ductile flow: Insights from centrifuge analogue modelling
The next stage of qualifying on July 13-14 sees around 400 players competing over 36 holes at Littlestone, North Foreland, Princes and Royal Cinque Ports.
GOLF: Open hopefuls tee off
Other companies discussed in this special focus are: Amoco (NYSE: AN), Atlantic Richfield (NYSE: ARC), Bellwether (Nasdaq: BELW), Chesapeake Energy (NYSE: CHK), Chevron (NYSE: CHV), Coho Energy (Nasdaq: COHO), EEX (NYSE: EEX), Enron Oil & Gas (NYSE: EOG), Exxon (NYSE: XON), Foreland Resources (Nasdaq: FORL), Gulf Canada Resources (NYSE: GOU), Mobil (NYSE: MOB), Murphy Oil (NYSE: MUR), Newfield Exploration (NYSE: NFX), Nuevo Energy (NYSE: NEV), Occidental Petroleum (NYSE: OXY), Phillips Petroleum (NYSE: P), Pioneer Natural Resources (NYSE: PXD), Pogo Producing (NYSE: PPP), Ramco Energy (Amex: RCO), Rutherford-Moran (Nasdaq: RMOC), Seitel (NYSE: SEI), Texaco (NYSE: TX), Texoil (Nasdaq: TXLI), Triton Oil (NYSE: OIL), Ultra Petroleum (Vancouver: UP.
Special Oil & Gas Edition Of The Wall Street Transcript
Contract Award Notice: The contract consist of the renewal of porches and associated works to houses in Foreland, Kintyre Avenue and Downan Avenue, Ballantrae.
Ref 3087 : Ballantrae, Renewal of Porches, Foreland, Kintyre and Downan Avenue

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