topography

Example Sentences

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He said people can and do farm on steep slopes, and topography was factored into the assessment.

From Seattle Times

Mammoth gets its heavy snow due to the altitude and topography surrounding it.

From Los Angeles Times

It’s this dramatic, crater-pocked edge between day and night on the moon, with its extraordinarily high-contrast topography, that gets the biggest raves, from all parties.

From New York Times

Then they applied an algorithm Garvin had first developed for Mars that searches for circular patterns in the topography.

From Science Magazine

The topography has also posed challenges, making it difficult to create containment lines, Vestal said.

From Los Angeles Times