relief map

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The first-ever relief map of the sea floor was published by Lamont in 1977 from measurements taken in part on the Vema.

From New York Times • Apr. 24, 2020

Did the map of her skin widen, sprouting rivers and bumpy roads on a relief map, the north, south, east, west of her expanding with the baby inside her?

From Salon • Mar. 30, 2019

The model delta, which represents a kind of relief map of the future, is supposed to simulate flooding and sea-level rise and to help test strategies for dealing with them.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 25, 2019

Sauce is practically a requirement here, save for the nearly blackened spareribs, which hide a nice pinch of spice in the relief map of rub on their surface.

From Washington Post • Jul. 2, 2018

She scooped a handful of fire and sculpted the flames until she was holding a miniature relief map of Italy.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan