orography
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- Instance of
- geomorphology
- Subclass of
- Earth science
- Part of
- morphometrics
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- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- is the study of
- Earth's surface
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- Orographic precipitation
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thumbnail|An orographic map of Eastern Siberia from 1875 by [[Peter Kropotkin]]
Orography is the study of the topographic relief of mountains, and can more broadly include hills, water stream directions and any part of a region's elevated terrain. Orography (also known as oreography, orology, or oreology) falls within the broader discipline of geomorphology. The term orography comes from the Greek: , hill, , to write.
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