Foreland in a sentence as a noun

The actual rock of the continental shelf is being squeezed between the Arabian and Eurasian plates and it buckled downwards in Iraq, forming a huge, flattish valley called a foreland basin. Erosion from the tectonic margins filled it in over time.

Foreland definitions

noun

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

See also: promontory headland head

noun

land forming the forward margin of something