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Etymology: International Scientific Vocabulary ge- + morphology
1. : a science that deals with the land and submarine relief features of the earth's surface and seeks a genetic interpretation of them through using the principles of physiography in its descriptive aspects and of dynamic and structural geology in its explanatory phases
2.
a. : the features dealt with in geomorphology
the geomorphology of the Black hills
b. : a treatise on geomorphology