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FORELAND BASIN

A sedimentary basin that develops adjacent to an orogenic belt (orogen). subsidence is caused by loading of the crust through the stacking up of sheets of rock bounded by thrust faults in a foldthrust belt, the erosion of which supplies sediment to the basin. The migrating locus of deformation as shortening continues may result in the deformation of earlier foreland basins. Foreland basins contain an important record of the growth of major mountain chains. Presentday examples include the molasse basin of the Alps and the Ganges basin south of the Himalayas.

GeraintOwenSwansea University
http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781446247501.n1534
10.4135/9781446247501.n1534

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