Do mountains exist? Towards an ontology of landforms

Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 411-427

  Smith, Barry ^a   Mark, David M ^a  

^a Center for Cognitive Science   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOUNTAIN; PERCEPTION; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 0037860926     PISSN: 02658135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/b12821     Document Type: Article

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