physiographicallyadv.

1895 Amer. Naturalist 29 742 All parts of Behring Sea to the north and east of this line, together with Behring Straits and much of the Arctic Ocean beyond, must be considered physiographically as belonging to the continental plateau region.

1896 Amer. Hist. Rev. 1 266 The union of the Cumberland pasture-lands with the mountain tracts of East Tennessee was physiographically unnatural.

1908 Westm. Gaz. 24 Mar. 12/1 This church stands nearly 1,450 feet above sea-level, and is considered the ‘highest’—not ecclesiastically, but physiographically—in Great Britain.

1973 Nature 1 June 277/2 Somewhat older deltas exist which receive little or no drainage today and are therefore harder to distinguish physiographically.

2001 Jrnl. Archaeol. Asia & Pacific (Nexis) 40 227 One of three physiographically distinct island types in the Carolines..Yap is a tight cluster of four volcanic continental islands.