topographic map
Example Sentences
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You can clearly see these on a topographic map as circles or ovals that have small lines pointing to the center of the circle or oval.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 5, 2024
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
He carried a hand-held GPS device so he could provide a topographic map with his water sites to his clients.
From New York Times • Jul. 17, 2021
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
