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Association for Geographic Information. AGI GIS dictionary [electronic resource]. Edinburgh : University of Edinburgh ; London : AGI, c1996.

The dictionary includes definitions of 980 terms from various sources which relate to GIS and is supplemented by 52 diagrams.
Brown Science & Engineering Library Reference
G63 .H68 1997
Houghton Mifflin dictionary of geography : places and peoples of the world. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1997.

Alderman Reference
G63 .L6 1976

Lock, Clara Beatrice Muriel. Geography and cartography : a reference handbook. 3rd ed. rev. and enl. London : C. Bingley ; Hamden, Conn. : Linnet Books, [1976]

Combined and rev. ed. of Geography: a reference handbook, first published in 1968, and of Modern maps and atlases, first published in 1969.

Brown Science & Engineering Library Reference
G123 .N38 1999
The National Geographic desk reference. Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, c1999.
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Sherer, Thomas E. The complete idiot's guide to geography [electronic resource]. New York : Alpha Books, c1997.
Brown Science & Engineering Library Reference
G63 .D52 1999
Skinner, Malcolm, et al. Dictionary of geography. London ; Chicago, Ill. : Fitzroy Dearborn, c1999.
Geostat Center Reference
G 103.5 .W42 1988
Webster's new geographical dictionary. Springfield, Mass. : Merriam-Webster, c1988.

 

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