topography

Example Sentences

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Its northern topography — the enormous sense of space, the way the light moves and colors shift against the mountains and desertscapes — keep me returning.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026

The study, "Channelized topography amplifies melt-sensitivity of cold Antarctic ice shelves," was published in the journal Nature Communications.

From Science Daily • May 10, 2026

In Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland groundwater flooding is often less extensive than in England due to the bedrock geology and topography.

From BBC • Feb. 18, 2026

Factors that vary widely throughout the region—such as seafloor topography, temperature, salinity and the presence of fresh water from melting ice—can play havoc with sonar signals.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 11, 2026

But under the deceptively clean and level slate the topography was the same, and instead of San Francisco or Europe or Mars I would be learning the old landscape, brook and hill and tree.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath