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What does physiography mean?

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  1. (geography) The subfield of geography that studies physical patterns and processes of the Earth. It aims to understand the forces that produce and change rocks, oceans, weather, and global flora and fauna patterns.
  2. The descriptive part of a natural science as distinguished from the explanatory or theoretical part.
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A brief history of the district, derivation of its name, physiography and details about its flora and fauna have been given.
Several nice color maps of the geology, vegetation, and physiography of the state are provided in this chapter.
Especially in the case of running waters, the gradient, discharge, and water velocity are largely affected by physiography.
Newly settled regions may be classified, provisionally, by the data of physiography, and malloseismic districts will eventually be subdivided with confidence by means of geologic criteria.
Such is the native physiography and anthropogenesis of the land of the Oregon.
Moreover, other changes in South American physiography followed the uplift of the Andes, including formation of the modern river basins.

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