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Subject: Re: MAPS-L: Term for depth and relief together
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 18:39:02 GMT
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Why not a hypsobathy index?
Topography comes from the Greek "topos" meaning "place," and "graphein" meaning "to write." So a topographic map describes the place. (That's quite a bit more general than the Greek "hypsos" meaning "height," whence "hypsometric" and "hypsographic."
Joe McCollum
FIA
Knoxville, TN