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...

described as foreland-basin, delta-complex clastic wedges, which are responsible for the large volumes of sediment input into the Appalachian basin. The collision...

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...

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...

these are present in all foreland-basin systems. The basin migrates with the orogenic front and early deposited foreland basin sediments become progressively...

Bengal basin is essentially a residual ocean basin and developed on the eastern continental margin of India. The Bengal basin is a foreland basin with a...

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...

Precambrian to late Paleozoic time. The basin developed as a series of foreland basins – in other words, basins developing immediately in front of growing...

in front of something Foreland basin, in geology, the zone that receives sediment from an adjacent mountain chain Glacier foreland, the area between the...

The Alaskan North Slope (ANS) is a foreland basin located on the northern edge of the Brooks Range. The Alaska North Slope is bounded on the north by the...

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...

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...

front of rising mountain chains. The molasse deposits accumulate in a foreland basin, especially on top of flysch-like deposits, for example, those that...

forearc, backarc-marginal sea, fold and thrust belt, and foreland basins. Sedimentary basin analysis is largely conducted by two types of geologists who...

The Wind River Basin or Shoshone Basin is a semi-arid intermontane foreland basin in central Wyoming, United States. It is bounded by Laramide uplifts...

peninsular region. Foreland basin Forebulge https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14634988.2017.1304129 "Life in the Ganga - Brahmaputra Basin | Human Environment...

the Appalachian Highlands).[citation needed] The Appalachian Basin is a foreland basin containing Paleozoic sedimentary rocks of early Cambrian through...

and glaciations. An example of forebulge can be seen in the Himalayan foreland basin, a result of the Indian-Eurasian (continent-continent) plate collision...

The Maracaibo Basin, also known as Lake Maracaibo natural region, Lake Maracaibo depression or Lake Maracaibo Lowlands, is a foreland basin and one of the...

"Late Jurassic to Eocene evolution of the Cordilleran thrust belt and foreland basin system, western U.S.A." American Journal of Science. 304 (2): 105–168...

loading, the Kuqa depression became an intra-continental foreland basin. The cross-section of the basin is asymmetric and its depositional center lies close...

doi:10.1130/GES00108.1. Poole, F.G. (1974). "Flysch Deposits of Antler Foreland Basin, Western United States" (PDF). In Dickinson, W.R. (ed.). Tectonics and...

The Western Canada Sedimentary Basin (WCSB) underlies 1.4 million square kilometres (540,000 sq mi) of Western Canada including southwestern Manitoba...

Ganges and Indus. The alluvial plains of the Indo-Gangetic Basin evolved as a foreland basin in the southern part of the rising Himalaya, before breaking...

back-arc basins are found offshore of the Venezuelan margin. A west-to-east lounging pattern of thrusts and lateral ramp faults and foreland basins onshore...

(OSM) of the Miocene are now known to extend through the North Alpine foreland basin and onto the Swabian Jura with thickness of up to 250 m (820 ft); these...

of a foreland basin system. Piggyback basins form in the wedge-top depositional zone of a foreland basin system as new thrusts in the foreland cut up...

Cenozoic foreland deposits (flysch and molasse) are found. This Bavarian and Swiss foreland basin is called the Molasse basin. The foreland basin deposits...

continent Laurasia. Structurally the Delaware, Midland and Marfa were foreland basins created when the Ouachita Mountains were uplifted as the southern continent...

The Paradox Basin is an asymmetric foreland basin located mostly in southeast Utah and southwest Colorado, but extending into northeast Arizona and northwest...