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topography  

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  • The description or depiction of the surface features and surface configuration of the Earth or other planets. In the narrow sense, it is the ground surface form (terrain); in the broad sense, it includes all the Earth’s surface features (natural and artificial) and hence is equivalent to landscape. [Source: Encyclopedia of Environmental Change; topography]

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