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Also Known As physiography

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Grove Karl Gilbert, 1891
Grove Karl Gilbert
American geologist
Ferdinand Paul Wilhelm, Freiherr von Richthofen
Ferdinand Paul Wilhelm, baron von Richthofen
German geographer
William Morris Davis
American geographer
Penck, Albrecht
Albrecht Penck
geographer
Vasily Vasilyevich Dokuchayev
Russian ecologist
Walther Penck
German geomorphologist
Siegfried Passarge
German geographer and geomorphologist

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