Structural basin that develops adjacent and parallel to a mountain belt
Not to be confused with Forearc basin.
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The Persian Gulf – the foreland basin produced by the Zagros orogenic belt
A foreland basin is a structural basin that develops adjacent and parallel to a mountain belt. Foreland basins form because the immense mass created by crustal thickening associated with the evolution of a mountain belt causes the lithosphere to bend, by a process known as lithospheric flexure. The width and depth of the foreland basin is determined by the flexural rigidity of the underlying lithosphere, and the characteristics of the mountain belt. The foreland basin receives sediment that is eroded off the adjacent mountain belt, filling with thick sedimentary successions that thin away from the mountain belt. Foreland basins represent an endmember basin type, the other being rift basins. Space for sediments (accommodation space) is provided by loading and downflexure to form foreland basins, in contrast to rift basins, where accommodation space is generated by lithospheric extension.
A forelandbasin is a structural basin that develops adjacent and parallel to a mountain belt. Forelandbasins form because the immense mass created by...
described as foreland-basin, delta-complex clastic wedges, which are responsible for the large volumes of sediment input into the Appalachian basin. The collision...
Molasse basin (or North Alpine forelandbasin) is a forelandbasin north of the Alps which formed during the Oligocene and Miocene epochs. The basin formed...
The Himalayan forelandbasin is an active collisional forelandbasin system in South Asia. Uplift and loading of the Eurasian Plate on to the Indian Plate...
these are present in all foreland-basin systems. The basin migrates with the orogenic front and early deposited forelandbasin sediments become progressively...
The Andean forelandbasins or Sub-Andean basins are a group of forelandbasins located in the western half of South America immediately east of the Andes...
Bengal basin is essentially a residual ocean basin and developed on the eastern continental margin of India. The Bengal basin is a forelandbasin with a...
in front of something Forelandbasin, in geology, the zone that receives sediment from an adjacent mountain chain Glacier foreland, the area between the...
an area of 240,000 km2 (93,000 sq mi). The Arabian Plate basin a wedge-shaped forelandbasin which lies beneath the western Zagros thrust and was created...
The Alaskan North Slope (ANS) is a forelandbasin located on the northern edge of the Brooks Range. The Alaska North Slope is bounded on the north by the...
front of rising mountain chains. The molasse deposits accumulate in a forelandbasin, especially on top of flysch-like deposits, for example, those that...
Precambrian to late Paleozoic time. The basin developed as a series of forelandbasins – in other words, basins developing immediately in front of growing...
and glaciations. An example of forebulge can be seen in the Himalayan forelandbasin, a result of the Indian-Eurasian (continent-continent) plate collision...
loading, the Kuqa depression became an intra-continental forelandbasin. The cross-section of the basin is asymmetric and its depositional center lies close...
peninsular region. Forelandbasin Forebulge https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14634988.2017.1304129 "Life in the Ganga - Brahmaputra Basin | Human Environment...
The Arkoma Basin is a peripheral forelandbasin that extends from central west Arkansas to south eastern Oklahoma. The basin lies in between the Ozark...
including passive margins, aulacogens, fore-arc basins, forelandbasins, intercontinental basins and pull-apart basins. Three mechanisms are common in the tectonic...
The Maracaibo Basin, also known as Lake Maracaibo natural region, Lake Maracaibo depression or Lake Maracaibo Lowlands, is a forelandbasin and one of the...
"Late Jurassic to Eocene evolution of the Cordilleran thrust belt and forelandbasin system, western U.S.A." American Journal of Science. 304 (2): 105–168...
forearc, backarc-marginal sea, fold and thrust belt, and forelandbasins. Sedimentary basin analysis is largely conducted by two types of geologists who...
the Appalachian Highlands).[citation needed] The Appalachian Basin is a forelandbasin containing Paleozoic sedimentary rocks of early Cambrian through...
The Paradox Basin is an asymmetric forelandbasin located mostly in southeast Utah and southwest Colorado, but extending into northeast Arizona and northwest...
The Laga Basin is the largest and youngest forelandbasin of the Central Apennines fold and thrust belt. It is Messinian in age and serves as a link between...
(OSM) of the Miocene are now known to extend through the North Alpine forelandbasin and onto the Swabian Jura with thickness of up to 250 m (820 ft); these...
Ganges and Indus. The alluvial plains of the Indo-Gangetic Basin evolved as a forelandbasin in the southern part of the rising Himalaya, before breaking...
Early Jurassic. These accumulated in a retroarc forelandbasin called the "main Karoo" Basin. This basin was formed by the subduction and orogenesis along...
orogenies with numerous overthrust faults. Thrust faults occur in the forelandbasin, marginal to orogenic belts. Here, compression does not result in appreciable...
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