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1837 O. Gregory Hutton's Course Math. (ed. 11) II. 156 (heading) On geodesic operations, and geomorphy, or the figure of the earth.

1870 J. W. Hoyt Rep. Educ. (U.S. Commissioners Paris Univ. Expos. 1867) vii. 178 Geodesy, including topography, terrestrial and celestial geomorphy, gnomonics, the tracing of charts and plans.

1892 Science 2 Dec. 317/1 There has grown up a new branch of geologic science, which has been called by its devotees ‘geomorphic geology’, ‘geomorphology’, and still more acceptably ‘geomorphy’.

1894 Bull. Dept. Geol. Univ. Calif. 1 242 The present geomorphy is the result of..the advance in the new geomorphic cycle to a stage of late adolescence or early maturity.

1912 Jrnl. Geol. (Chicago) 20 447 To the student of geomorphy this is the striking characteristic of the Sonoran region.

1931 Sci. Monthly Feb. 108 Excellent views are obtained of the rocks, the tectonic features and the geomorphy of the range.

2000 Folia Geobotanica 35 461 A description of the present environment of the lake and/or lake district includes the geology, geomorphy..and sedimentology as well as hydrobiological and botanical characteristics.

1896 Science 13 Nov. 711/2 The facts recorded in the report of this District concerning its surface contour..and other data especially inviting the glacialist and geomorphist, are in suggestive abundance.

1904 Amer. Geologist Mar. 175 The geomorphist who is satisfied with the study of land forms as a finality.

1992 L. Scott Witchbroom (1993) 5 Ancient chroniclers, cartographers, cosmographers and geomorphists..and the others who misled..Columbus.