topographic relief

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relief
noun
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/rɪˈliːf/us
/rɪˈliːf/
a feeling of happiness that something unpleasant has not happened or ...
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She takes the broadest of views, including any discrete carbonate structure withtopographicreliefformed by in situ or bound organic components.
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Topographicreliefwas minimal in the study sites.
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Rainfall is higher in the south, forests are dense and of greater stature, and there is significanttopographicrelief.
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In such an increasingly siliciclastic environment the number oftopographicrelief-developing structures is limited as the mobility of the sea-bottom increases and the potential for early cementation decreases.
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Finally, the upland is almost gone: the stream floodplains merge in an area of very low to notopographicrelief.
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The transport rate or flux of erosion, as well as sedimentation, is a function oftopographicrelief.
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A drop of water falling on atopographicreliefflows along a path to finally reach a local minimum.
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The ecoregion has littletopographicrelief, covers an area of 69700 km2, and has tropical humid climate and a high biodiversity.
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Erosion of the range provided sediment in the valley so thetopographicreliefis only 7700 ft.
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The eastern end of the mountains offers 1000ft m oftopographicreliefin a region otherwise dominated by gently rolling grasslands.
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In slightly higher areas with sometopographicreliefand better drainage, beech, maples, basswood, tuliptree and other more mesic species were dominant.
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Mass wasting such as landslides further reducedtopographicrelief.
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Weathering has removed more easily eroded material surrounding the mountains, producing their moderntopographicrelief.
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The village'stopographicreliefis mountainous.
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The governorate in general lies 16003200m ft above the sea level, with atopographicreliefthat varies from high mountains to deep valleys, upland plains and plateaus.
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The species is most frequently seen in areas where thetopographicreliefgives rise to creek lines, in which there tends to be denser shrubby vegetation.
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