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  2. Terrain cartography - Wikipedia

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    An illustration of the resolution bumping technique of shaded relief, Bitterroot Mountains and Salmon River, Montana/Idaho. Left: 200 m resolution shaded relief, middle: shaded relief after 7000 m smoothing filter, right: 65%/35% mix. The original image looks uniformly rugged, while the one on the right emphasizes the larger mountains and canyons.

  3. Geology of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Shaded relief map of the United States, showing 10 geological provinces. The richly textured landscape of the United States is a product of the dueling forces of plate tectonics, weathering and erosion. Over the 4.5 billion-year history of the Earth, tectonic upheavals and colliding plates have raised great mountain ranges while the forces of ...

  4. Environment of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Shaded relief map of the United States, showing 10 geological provinces The richly textured landscape of the United States is a product of the dueling forces of plate tectonics, weathering and erosion. Over the 4.5 billion-year history of the Earth, tectonic upheavals and colliding plates have raised great mountain ranges while the forces of ...

  5. Topographic map - Wikipedia

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    Sergeant Chris D. Washington checking his Topographic map during a morning deer hunt in Kilgore, Texas A topographic map of Stowe, Vermont with contour lines Part of the same map in a perspective shaded relief view illustrating how the contour lines follow the terrain Sheet #535 (2013 version; second digital edition) of MTN50 Spanish National Topographic map series, covering Algete town (near ...

  6. File:Shaded relief map of Black Hills, SD, Topographic ...

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  7. Dissected plateau - Wikipedia

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    Shaded relief map of Cumberland Plateau and Ridge and Valley Appalachians on the Virginia/West Virginia border. A dissected plateau is a plateau area that has been severely eroded such that the relief is sharp.

  8. Raised-relief map - Wikipedia

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    A raised-relief map, terrain model or embossed map is a three-dimensional representation, usually of terrain, materialized as a physical artifact. When representing terrain, the vertical dimension is usually exaggerated by a factor between five and ten; this facilitates the visual recognition of terrain features.

  9. Geography of Arizona - Wikipedia

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    The physiographic regions of Arizona A shaded relief map of Arizona. Arizona can be divided into two major physiographic regions: the Colorado Plateau and the Basin and Range Province, and a transitioning zone between the two called the Transition Zone.