physiography
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But his reputation rests more securely on his explanation of the stratigraphy, structural geology and physiography of North America, Europe and Asia as the record of continental developments.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yesterday, Friday evening, Taylor gave an introductory lecture on his remarkably fascinating subject—modern physiography.
From Scott's Last Expedition Volume I by Robert Falcon Scott
They belong especially in the branch of the science known as physiography.
From The Economic Aspect of Geology by C. K. (Charles Kenneth) Leith
This department is as interesting to old as to young, though it will find a warm place in the hearts of the youths who are just getting interested in physics, physiography, chemistry, and electricity.
From Boys and Girls Bookshelf; a Practical Plan of Character Building, Volume I (of 17) Fun and Thought for Little Folk by Daniel Edwin Wheeler
It opens with a general system of physiography, and then passes successively to geography, anthropology, human physiology, zoology and comparative physiology, botany, including agriculture and horticulture, medicine, mineralogy, and the fine arts.
From Latin Literature by J. W. (John William) Mackail
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