Graphic and quantitative comparisons of land types
1935
Veatch, J.O.
Most descriptions of land surfaces are qualitative. Geographers and geologists have been adept in describing how and why land differ in their physiognomy, but not in stating to what degree they differ. The need for more precise, or quantitative, descriptions is evident when closely related, or very similar land types are compared, and when land types are being evaluated for some particular use as, for example, a type of farming. As a consequence of reflections such as the foregoing, and as an attempt to supply a need for quantitative comparisons in connection with recent research in the differentiation of natural land types and in the evaluation of kinds of land in relation to agricultural use, the author has devised a scheme for the graphic comparison of slopes and has developed some additional ideas for comparing land on the basis of the number and areal extent of significant land components.
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