Editing Orography (section)

{{Short description|Study of the topographic relief of mountains}}
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[[File:Map of Eastern Siberia.png|thumbnail|An orographic map of Eastern [[Siberia]] from 1875 by [[Peter Kropotkin]]]]

'''Orography''' is the study of the [[topographic relief]] of [[mountains]],<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Orography|short=x}}</ref> and can more broadly include hills, and any part of a region's elevated terrain.<ref>[http://amsglossary.allenpress.com/glossary/search?p=1&query=Orography&submit=Search Orography] ({{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927214627/http://amsglossary.allenpress.com/glossary/search?p=1&query=Orography&submit=Search |date=27 September 2007 }}). [[American Meteorological Society]].</ref> Orography (also known as ''oreography'', ''orology,'' or ''oreology'') falls within the broader discipline of [[geomorphology]].<ref name=WDL1>{{cite web|title=Map of the Southern Half of Eastern Siberia and Parts of Mongolia, Manchuria, and Sakhalin: For a General Sketch of the Orography of Eastern Siberia|url=http://www.wdl.org/en/item/125/|publisher=World Digital Library|access-date=23 January 2013}}</ref> The term orography comes from the [[Ancient Greek|Greek]]: {{lang|grc|όρος}}, hill, {{lang|grc|γράφω}}, to write.