Carpathians and the Southern Carpathians (also in Romania). It is a post-collisional basin which developed in the Messinian to Pliocene (7-2.6 Ma). Initially the sedimentation from this basin was mostly just in a pre-existent foredeep area. Subsequently it extended southward over the northern part of the Moesian Platform and a part of the Scythian platform. Ebro Basin Peripheral foreland basin to the south of the Pyrenees, in northern Spain Substantial deformation of the foreland basin has occurred in the north, exemplified by the foreland fold and thrust belt in the western Catalan province. The basin is well known for the spectacular exposures of syn- and post-tectonic sediment strata due to the peculiar drainage evolution of the basin. Guadalquivir Basin Formed during the Neogene north of the Betic Cordillera (southern Spain), on a Hercynian basement. Aquitaine Basin Retro-foreland basin to the north of the Pyrenees, in southern France North America Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin Foreland to the east of the Rocky Mountains, Alberta South America Andean foreland basins Caguán-Putumayo Basin Cesar-Ranchería Basin Llanos Basin Magallanes Basin Marañón Basin Middle Magdalena Valley Neuquén Basin Oriente Basin Ucayali Basin Upper Magdalena Valley Ancient foreland basin systems Asia Longmen Shan Basin Foreland to the east of the Longmen Shan mountains Peak evolution during the Triassic to Jurassic Urals Foreland Foreland to the west of the Ural Mountains, in Russia Formed during the Paleozoic Europe Windermere Supergroup Foreland basin caused by subduction of Iapetus ocean under Avalonia Ordovician to Silurian in age Underlies most of England North America Western Interior Basin Foreland to the east of the Sevier orogenic belt Covered most of the western and central Northwest Territories; western and central Alberta; central and eastern Montana; Wyoming; central and eastern Utah; Colorado; central and eastern New Mexico; western Texas; eastern Chihuahua; Coahuila; eastern Durango; northern Zacatecas; Aguascalientes; eastern and central Guanajuato; western San Luis Potosí; Querétaro; and all but the western edge of Michoacán Evolved during the Cretaceous Deepest parts of the basin filled with the Mancos Shale Most of the Bighorn Basin filled with the Thermopolis Shale Appalachian Basin Foreland to the west of the Appalachian mountains, in Eastern United States Bend Arch – Fort Worth Basin Pro-Foreland to the east of the Ouachita orogenic belt Formed during the Paleozoic South America Foreland to the east of the Central Andes orogenic belt - The Southern Chaco Foreland Basin in northern Argentina See also