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relief map

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relief map
a map that shows the configuration and height of the land surface, usually by means of contours

relief map [ri′lēf ‚map]
(mapping)
A map of an area showing the topographic relief.

relief map, hypsometric map
A map depicting the configuration of the earth’s surface, called the relief, by means of contours, form lines, hachures, shading, tinting, or relief models.


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Youngest and I made our own fun writing messages in the air with sparklers, then he made relief maps of Warwickshire on the soles of his shoes by stamping on the hot ones we dropped.
I could relate to it not because I've got a smooth, featureless face - sadly, it's more like a lumpy relief map charting myriad disappointments - but because in the past few months I've grown increasingly concerned that deep inside, underneath, in my heart, at my core, in my bones, within the very centre of my soul, lurks a terrifying, all-consuming, awful, echoing blankness.
The display wall of ship models gladden every little boy's heart and the huge wooden relief map of the River Tyne built for the 1929 North East Coast Exhibition is well worth study.
 
 
 
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