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  • noun Plural form of physiographer.

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  • Considered the non-mountainous portion of the old Appalachians Highland by physiographers, the northeast-southwest trending Piedmont ecoregion comprises a transitional area between the mostly mountainous ecoregions of the Appalachians to the northwest and the relatively flat coastal plain to the southeast.

    Ecoregions of North Carolina and South Carolina (EPA) 2009

  • Considered the nonmountainous portion of the old Appalachians Highland by physiographers, the northeast-southwest trending Piedmont ecoregion comprises a transitional area between the mostly mountainous ecoregions of the Appalachians to the northwest and the relatively flat coastal plain to the southeast.

    Ecoregions of the United States-Level III (EPA) 2009

  • Considered the nonmountainous portion of the old Appalachians Highland by physiographers, the northeast-southwest trending Piedmont ecoregion comprises a transitional area between the mostly mountainous ecoregions of the Appalachians to the northwest and the relatively flat coastal plain to the southeast.

    Ecoregions of Alabama and Georgia (EPA) 2008

  • In the United States physiographers consider them in two groups, the

    The Book of the National Parks Robert Sterling Yard 1903

  • But the natural scientists -- the foresters, the physiographers, the geologists -- have within a very few years been making themselves heard in warning.

    The French in the Heart of America John Finley 1901

  • These modern physiographers set out to explain the forms of land erosion on broad common-sense lines, heedless of geological support.

    Scott's Last Expedition Volume I Robert Falcon Scott 1890

  • It is believed on good grounds of inference, but absolutely without positive evidence, that the south pole is covered with a great cap of ice, and some physiographers have gone so far as to assert its thickness as possibly six miles at the centre.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I. Richard Hakluyt 1584

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