List of foreign keys and the tables they reference in Oracle DB

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I'm trying to find a query which will return me a list of the foreign keys for a table and the tables and columns they reference. I am half way there with

SELECT a.table_name, 
       a.column_name, 
       a.constraint_name, 
       c.owner
FROM ALL_CONS_COLUMNS A, ALL_CONSTRAINTS C  
where A.CONSTRAINT_NAME = C.CONSTRAINT_NAME 
  and a.table_name=:TableName 
  and C.CONSTRAINT_TYPE = 'R'

But I still need to know which table and primary key are referenced by this key. How would I get that?

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My version, in my humble opinion, more readable:

SELECT   PARENT.TABLE_NAME  "PARENT TABLE_NAME"
,        PARENT.CONSTRAINT_NAME  "PARENT PK CONSTRAINT"
,       '->' " "
,        CHILD.TABLE_NAME  "CHILD TABLE_NAME"
,        CHILD.COLUMN_NAME  "CHILD COLUMN_NAME"
,        CHILD.CONSTRAINT_NAME  "CHILD CONSTRAINT_NAME"
FROM     ALL_CONS_COLUMNS   CHILD
,        ALL_CONSTRAINTS   CT
,        ALL_CONSTRAINTS   PARENT
WHERE    CHILD.OWNER  =  CT.OWNER
AND      CT.CONSTRAINT_TYPE  = 'R'
AND      CHILD.CONSTRAINT_NAME  =  CT.CONSTRAINT_NAME 
AND      CT.R_OWNER  =  PARENT.OWNER
AND      CT.R_CONSTRAINT_NAME  =  PARENT.CONSTRAINT_NAME 
AND      CHILD.TABLE_NAME  = ::table -- table name variable
AND      CT.OWNER  = ::owner; -- schema variable, could not be needed
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