"forearc" meaning in English

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          "text": "These offshore Sonoman mountains likely formed an orogenic (mountainous) barrier to moisture inland, resulting in a mountain-shadow onshore desert punctuated by regional annual and large basin perennial streams draining into a forearc saline sea.",
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        "A region of raised rock debris which forms between the subduction zone and any associated volcano or volcanic chain."
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        "(geology) A region of raised rock debris which forms between the subduction zone and any associated volcano or volcanic chain."
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