Forelandとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

名詞

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, 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.

派生語

• South Foreland

参照

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

語源

fore- +‎ lond.

発音

• IPA: /ˈfoːr(ə)land/, /ˈfɔr(ə)land/

名詞

foreland (plural forelandes)

1. headland

派生した語

• English: foreland
• Yola: furloan

参照

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