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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 327 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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OROGRAPHY (Gr. opos, mountain, ypadeuv, to write)

OROGRAPHY (Gr. opos,
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MOUNTAIN (0. Fr. montaigne; popular Lat. montanea, an adjectival form from the classical mons, montis, whence Eng. " mount," a form usually used along with the name of an individual mountain, e.g. Mt Everest)
MOUNTAIN, THE (La Montagne)
mountain, ypadeuv, to write) , that

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PART

part of

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PHYSICAL

physical

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GEOGRAPHY (Gr. yil, earth, and ypiickty, to write)

geography which deals, with the

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GEOLOGICAL

geological formation, the

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SURFACE

surface features and description of mountains . The terms " oreography," " orology" and "oreology" are also sometimes used .

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