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Contents 1 List of physical geographers 2 Request for Feedback 3 Physiography and inline citations 4 Overlap 5 Distinctiveness

[edit] List of physical geographers

This list seems to contain a number of natural scientists, i'm not sure its correct to describe all of these as physical geographers. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Vokidks (talk • contribs) 15:01, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Request for Feedback

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[edit] Physiography and inline citations

I added the tag about no inline citations so the article will be more clear where these terms come from. Along the same lines, I have found a couple of references that may help show an area of confusion with the term "physiography" (and may need the 'redirct' changed). For further information (and to see the references), please see Physiographic regions of the world. I would also appreciate any assistance on that article if anybody else cares to help. Thanks. wbfergus ^Talk 14:00, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

Physiography by all the definitions from a google search suggest that it's either a) synonymous with physical geography, b) a description of the land or c) geomorphology. The term doesn't seem to be widely used apart from in a geological sense when describing the partitions of the continent in to separate cratons etc. Ultimately it seems to me to be a left over from the days of regional geography and area studies, when one would publish the physiography of say Western Australia. On a personal note I'd say it was more akin to geomorphology (http://tapestry.usgs.gov/physiogr/physio.html calls physiographic regions geomorphic regions thus also implying the link).Hope that helps somewhat. 81.111.119.98 (talk) 15:53, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Overlap

The salinization image is overlapping the far right column of text under the literature section. Could this be corrected in any way?

[edit] Distinctiveness

How is physical geography distinct from Geoscience? I've always understood them to be synonyms.

Proginoskes (talk) 15:45, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

The distinction tends to be based on physical geography largely examining surface and above features and on a timescale usually going no further back than the Quaternary. Whereas, Geoscience is an umbrella term used to group physical geography and geology together. Although the distinction is somewhat arbitrary as many research just go where their interest are. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.154.168.156 (talk) 21:44, 2 June 2008 (UTC)