foreland

From Middle English foreland, equivalent to fore- +‎ land.

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foreland (plural forelands)

1. A headland.
2. (geology) In plate tectonics, the zone adjacent to a mountain chain where material eroded from it is deposited.
   • 1980, B. C. Burchfiel, “Foreland Fold and Thrust Belts—Review”, in AAPG Bulletin‎^[1], volume 64, number 5, American Association of Petroleum Geologists, →DOI, page 684:

     Most foreland fold and thrust belts are linear or arcuate belts of folds and thrust faults that form a marginal part of an orogenic belt between an undeformed craton and a more intensely deformed inner zone.

• South Foreland

• “foreland”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

• forelond, forlonde, ffurlande

fore- +‎ lond.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfoːr(ə)land/, /ˈfɔr(ə)land/

foreland (plural forelandes)

1. headland

• English: foreland
• Yola: furloan

• “fō̆r(e-land, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.