topographic map

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In short, the traits of each species correspond to fitness peaks that can be likened to mountains on a topographic map separated from other mountains by valleys of lower fitness.

From Science Daily • Jan. 18, 2024

Mount St. Helens Topo Cup An eco-friendly collaboration between PNW staple Miir and Portland company Rustek, this camp cup has a wrap of real wood engraved with a topographic map of Mount St. Helens.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 16, 2023

“I left my kids at home so I could hike,” the German said as he studied a topographic map of the second-largest island in the Mediterranean.

From Washington Post • May 13, 2022

To reconstruct those early travelers’ potential paths, researchers assembled the first detailed topographic map of Sahul—including past coastal lands now underwater—from satellite, aerial, and undersea mapping data.

From Science Magazine • May 4, 2021

Because he had no topographic map, however, he had no way of conceiving that salvation was so close at hand.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer