land · geography
matter together with a boundary forms an area of surface
Examples
- The Ganges River delta grows 50 square kilometers per year as sediment meets the Bay of Bengal's edge. geography
- Mount Everest's surface rose 0.8 meters between 1995 and 2020 due to tectonic uplift and ice accumulation. geophysics
- The Netherlands' coastline extends 7 kilometers westward since 1850 through dikes enclosing seabed. engineering
Emergence
through: matter together with a boundary creates an area of surface
- bounded extent
- surface configuration
- spatial enclosure
Chain to foundations
as tree
- landL10
- matterL1
- boundaryL2
- areaL5
- spaceL0 (shown above)
- boundaryL2 (shown above)
- extentL3
- surroundedL4
- formL9
- surfaceL4
Neighborhood
Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.
Used by (8)
Relations
| is-a | surface.exterior | is-a |