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Synonyms for foreland

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

land forming the forward margin of something

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to the Forelands. Handwriting appears to be Dennis McAllister (see also 6 April 1983 flight).
Forelands. Large group near East Foreland just off N.
Matthews reviewed those pieces of research in relation to plant succession on glacier forelands over the past 100 years.
Matthews, The Ecology of Recently Deglaciated Terrain: A Geoecological Approach to Glacier Forelands and Primary Succession, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 1992.
This well will be an offset to the ARCO North Forelands #1 well that was flow tested at 4,340 BOEPD from three formations (including the Hemlock) with oil testing at 43o API Gravity.
The oil is contained in the Lower Tyonek, Hemlock, Sunfish and West Foreland Formations.
The joint venture will allow Mitsubishi to acquire an average 20 percent interest in nine of Talisman's licenses in the Forelands of PNG.
The most recent aerial surveys (2002) conducted in the Forelands by Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADFG) estimated a density of 0.5 moose/[km.sup.2] with a composition ratio of 19 males:100 females:14 young (N.
Other large mammals that occur on the Forelands include brown bear (Ursus arctos), black bear (U.
I WOULD like to express my thanks and appreciation to the staff at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, Northfield, and particularly Forelands Ward, for the wonderful treatment and care I received when I was admitted for knee replacement surgery recently.
Jacob Teitelbaum, ARC, 466 Forelands Road, Annapolis, MD 21401; email: endfatigue@ aol.com; website: www.endfatigue.
Of the 13 wells drilled, a total of 10 wells were successfully flow tested at rates of up to 4,343 BOEPD (North Forelands # 1 well) and 4,320 BOEPD (North Cook Inlet # B-02 well), or had logging results confirming the presence of productive oil.
Khisor Range of the Trans-Indus ranges is a south-vergent fold-thrust belt that defines an east-west to north-northeast trending structural geometries and protrudes southward into the northwestern Punjab foreland deep.
In the southern Cordillera (Price, 1981), the crustal thickness varies from >40 km in the Foreland Belt to 33 to 35 km beneath the Omineca Belt.
The lower and middle Siwaliks equivalent to the Chinji and Nagri formations in Kohat-Potwar plateau, were deposited in a terrestrial foreland basin that developed in response to the Himalayan orogenic movements.