GENERAL GEOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The difference in height between a high point and a low point on earth’s surface is called relief.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Earth’s highest elevation point is at the summit of Mt. Everest in Nepal. It measures 8, 848 meters (29, 035 feet). The Earth’s lowest land elevation point is at the Dead Sea, located at the border of Israel and Jordan.

Detailed explanation-3: -The term, relief, refers to the difference between the highest and the lowest elevations of a landscape.

Detailed explanation-4: -Relief is the difference in height elevation between geographic features. We could for example use relief to describe the elevation, direction, and angle of slope of a mountain range. We could also simply say that relief is the opposite of flatness.

Detailed explanation-5: -What is a relief map? Relief is the variations in the elevation of the ground surface, also features of height above a plain or reference datum. On a relief map, relief is depicted by hachures or shading, or, more accurately, by contours or by spot elevations or both. This relief map shows elevation contours.