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Morphology is usually defined as the part of geography that deals with the physical constitution of a territory or a landscape taken as a whole. The central elements of a territory’s morphology are mountains, hills, rivers, coasts, etc. The presence of these and other elements, and the positions they hold within a spatial range, constitute the real form of a territory. A morphogenetic approach to territory, or landscape, is adopted when the scientific task consists in understanding its origins and foreseeing possible evolving scenarios.
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Furia, P. (2020). Geography. In: Vercellone, F., Tedesco, S. (eds) Glossary of Morphology. Lecture Notes in Morphogenesis. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51324-5_47
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