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Orography

An orographic map of Eastern Siberia from 1875 by Peter Kropotkin

Orography is the study of the topographic relief of mountains,[1] and can more broadly include hills, and any part of a region's elevated terrain.[2] Orography (also known as oreography, orology, or oreology) falls within the broader discipline of geomorphology.[3] The term orography comes from the Greek: όρος, hill, γράφω, to write.

  1. ^ "Orography" . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). 1911.
  2. ^ Orography (Archived 27 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine). American Meteorological Society.
  3. ^ "Map of the Southern Half of Eastern Siberia and Parts of Mongolia, Manchuria, and Sakhalin: For a General Sketch of the Orography of Eastern Siberia". World Digital Library. Retrieved 23 January 2013.

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