Physiographic regions of the earth according to Fenneman

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The Physiographic Regions according to Nevin Fenneman consist of natural spatial units of the global and regional dimensional level, which result from geological and geomorphological factors. The top level contains five “ continents ”, whereby paleogeographical and plate tectonic aspects such as the common or inconsistent past of the individual continental blocks and their components are not taken into account. Below the continents follow this scheme Divisions , Provinces (provinces) and sections (sections), according to the nomenclature of the United States Geological Survey .

Continents

Classification

continent division province section
Africa African Alpidian system Atlas Tell Atlas / Mediterranean Atlas
Africa African Alpidian system Atlas Southern Atlas
Africa African Alpidian system Atlas Inner plateaus
Africa African Alpidian system Atlas Canary Islands
Africa African socket (Lower Africa) Sahara Central Saharan Threshold
Africa African socket Sahara Encircling Plateaus And Lowlands
Africa African socket Sahara Central Saharan Ergs
Africa African socket Sahara Western Sahara
Africa African socket Sahara Eastern Sahara
Africa African socket Sudan Niger basin
Africa African socket Sudan Chad Basin
Africa African socket Sudan White Nile Basin
Africa African socket Central Africa Northern Guinea Sill
Africa African socket Central Africa Guinea coast
Africa African socket Central Africa Cameroon highlands
Africa African socket Central Africa Ubangi-Shari highlands (Asande threshold)
Africa African socket Central Africa South Guinea Sill
Africa African socket Central Africa Coastal plain
Africa African socket Central Africa Congo Basin
Africa Southern Africa South African Platform Kalahari
Africa Southern Africa Lundaschwelle
Africa Southern Africa Matabele highlands
Africa Southern Africa Veldt
Africa Southern Africa Karoo (Karru)
Africa Southern Africa Damara-Nama highlands
Africa Southern Africa Namib
Africa Southern Africa Cape country
Africa Southern Africa Natal terraces belt
Africa Southern Africa Coastal plain of Mozambique
Africa Southern Africa Madagascar
Africa Eastern High Africa (East Africa) Big African grave breach (Great Rift Valley) Coastal region
Africa East Africa Great Rift Valley High interior plateau
Africa East Africa Great Rift Valley Central African Rift (Western Rift)
Africa East Africa Great Rift Valley East African Rift (Eastern Rift)
Africa East Africa Abyssinia Somali Peninsula
Africa East Africa Abyssinia Highlands of Ethiopia
Africa East Africa Abyssinia Ethiopian trench
Africa East Africa Abyssinia Etbai chain
America Appalachian Mountains Atlantic Coast Uplands
America Appalachian Mountains Eastern Newfoundland Atlantic
America Appalachian Mountains Maritime Acadian Highlands
America Appalachian Mountains Maritime Plain
America Appalachian Mountains Notre Dame And Megantic Mountains
America Appalachian Mountains Western Newfoundland Mountains Newfoundland Highlands
America Appalachian Mountains Western Newfoundland Mountains Newfoundland Coastal Lowland
America Appalachian Mountains Piedmont Piedmont Upland
America Appalachian Mountains Piedmont Piedmont Lowlands
America Appalachian Mountains Blue Ridge Mountains North section
America Appalachian Mountains Blue Ridge Mountains South section
America Appalachian Mountains Ridge and Valley Zone Tennessee Section
America Appalachian Mountains Ridge and Valley Zone Middle section
America Appalachian Mountains Ridge and Valley Zone Hudson Valley
America Appalachian Mountains Saint Lawrence River Valley Champlain Valley
America Appalachian Mountains Saint Lawrence River Valley North section
America Appalachian Mountains Appalachian Plateau Mohawk
America Appalachian Mountains Appalachian plateau Catskill Mountains
America Appalachian Mountains Appalachian plateau Southern New York section
America Appalachian Mountains Appalachian Plateau Allegheny Mountains
America Appalachian Mountains Appalachian plateau Kanawha
America Appalachian Mountains Appalachian plateau Cumberland Plateau
America Appalachian Mountains Appalachian plateau Cumberland Mountains
America Appalachian Mountains New England province Seaboard Lowland section
America Appalachian Mountains New England province New England Upland section
America Appalachian Mountains New England province White Mountains
America Appalachian Mountains New England province Green Mountains
America Appalachian Mountains New England province Taconic Mountains
America Arctic lowlands Eastern part
America Arctic lowlands Western part
America Atlantic plain Continental shelf
America Atlantic plain Coastal plain Embayed section
America Atlantic plain Coastal plain Sea Island section
America Atlantic plain Coastal plain Floridian section
America Atlantic plain Coastal plain East Gulf Coastal Plain
America Atlantic plain Coastal plain Mississippi Alluvial Plain
America Atlantic plain Coastal plain West Gulf Coastal Plain
America Atlantic plain Coastal plain Gulf Coast Plain And Yucatan Peninsula
America Canadian shield Laurent highlands
America Canadian shield Adirondack Mountains
America Canadian shield Kazan
America Canadian shield Davis
America Canadian shield Hudson Hudson Bay lowlands
America Canadian shield James
America Innuitian region Eastern High Arctic Glacier
America Innuitian region Western High Arctic
America Inner highlands Ozark Plateau Springfield-Salem Plateaus
America Inner highlands Ozark Plateau Boston Mountains
America Inner highlands Ouachita province Arkansas Valley
America Inner highlands Ouachita province Ouachita Mountains
America Inner lowlands Inner low plateaus Highland Rim
America Inner lowlands Inner low plateaus Lexington Plain
America Inner lowlands Inner low plateaus Nashville Basin
America Inner lowlands Great Plains Missouri Plateau, glaciated
America Inner lowlands Great Plains Missouri Plateau, unglaciated
America Inner lowlands Great Plains Black Hills
America Inner lowlands Great Plains High plains
America Inner lowlands Great Plains Plains border
America Inner lowlands Great Plains Arctic Coastal Plain
America Inner lowlands Great Plains Colorado Piedmont
America Inner lowlands Great Plains Raton section
America Inner lowlands Great Plains Pecos Valley
America Inner lowlands Great Plains Edwards Plateau
America Inner lowlands Great Plains Central Texas section
America Inner lowlands Central lowlands Dissected Till Plains
America Inner lowlands Central lowlands Eastern Lake section
America Inner lowlands Central lowlands Osage Plains
America Inner lowlands Central lowlands Till Plains
America Inner lowlands Central lowlands Western Lake section
America Inner lowlands Central lowlands Wisconsin Driftless section
America Inner lowlands Mackenzie River Delta Mackenzie River
America Inner lowlands Mackenzie River Delta Yukon Coastal Plain
America Inner lowlands Manitoba Lowlands
America Inner lowlands Northern Boreal Plains Great Slave Plain
America Inner lowlands Northern Boreal Plains Great Bear Plain
America Inner lowlands Northern Boreal Plains Anderson Plain
America Inner lowlands Northern Boreal Plains Peel plain and plateau
America Inner lowlands Northern Boreal Plains Colville Hills
America Inner lowlands Prairie Grasslands Alberta Plain
America Inner lowlands Prairie Grasslands Saskatchewan Hills
America Inner lowlands Southern Boreal Plains And Plateaux Alberta Plateau
America Inner lowlands Southern Boreal Plains And Plateaux Saskatchewan Plain
America Intermontane plateaus Columbia River Plateau Walla Walla Plateau
America Intermontane plateaus Columbia River Plateau Blue Mountains
America Intermontane plateaus Columbia River Plateau Payette River section
America Intermontane plateaus Columbia River Plateau Snake River Plain
America Intermontane plateaus Columbia River Plateau Harney Basin
America Intermontane plateaus Colorado Plateau High Plateaus Of Utah
America Intermontane plateaus Colorado Plateau Uintah Basin
America Intermontane plateaus Colorado Plateau Canyon Lands
America Intermontane plateaus Colorado Plateau Navajo section
America Intermontane plateaus Colorado Plateau Grand Canyon section
America Intermontane plateaus Colorado Plateau Datil-Mogollon Section
America Intermontane plateaus Colorado Plateau Acoma-Zuni Section
America Intermontane plateaus Basin and Range Large pool
America Intermontane plateaus Basin and Range Sonoran Desert
America Intermontane plateaus Basin and Range Salton Trough
America Intermontane plateaus Basin and Range Mexican highland
America Intermontane plateaus Basin and Range Sacramento section
America Intermontane plateaus Basin and Range Mexican Altiplano
America Intermontane plateaus Northern plateaus Interior plateau
America Intermontane plateaus Yukon Tanana Uplands Yukon plateau
America Intermontane plateaus Yukon Tanana Uplands Cassiar Mountains
America Intermontane plateaus Yukon Tanana Uplands Skeena Mountains
America Intermontane plateaus Yukon Tanana Uplands Liard Plain
America Intermontane plateaus Yukon Tanana Uplands Hyland Plateau
America Intermontane plateaus Yukon Tanana Uplands Pelly Mountains
America Pacific Cordillera Cascade Sierra Mountains Northern Cascade Mountains p. a. List of mountain ranges on the North American Pacific coast
America Pacific Cordillera Cascade Sierra Mountains Middle Cascade Mountains
America Pacific Cordillera Cascade Sierra Mountains Southern Cascade Mountains
America Pacific Cordillera Cascade Sierra Mountains Sierra Nevada
America Pacific Cordillera Pacific Border province Puget Sound
America Pacific Cordillera Pacific Border province Olympic Mountains
America Pacific Cordillera Pacific Border province Oregon Coast Range
America Pacific Cordillera Pacific Border province Klamath Mountains (Salmon Mountains)
America Pacific Cordillera Pacific Border province Central Valley
America Pacific Cordillera Pacific Border province California Coast Ranges
America Pacific Cordillera Pacific Border province Los Angeles Ranges) (Transverse Ranges)
America Pacific Cordillera Pacific Border province Aleutian Islands
America Pacific Cordillera Pacific Border province Boundary ranges
America Pacific Cordillera Baja California (Peninsular Ranges)
America Rocky mountains Wyoming Basin
America Rocky mountains Columbia Mountains Columbia Highlands
America Rocky mountains Columbia Mountains Interior plateau
America Rocky mountains Columbia Mountains Southern Rocky Mountain Trench
America Rocky mountains Arctic Mountains
America Rocky mountains Arctic Mountains Brooks Range
America Rocky mountains Arctic Mountains Arctic foothills
America Rocky mountains Northern Rocky Mountains
America Rocky mountains Middle Rocky Mountains
America Rocky mountains Southern Rocky Mountains
America Sierra Madre Mountains Sierra Madre Occidental Lava (Rhyolite) plateau
America Sierra Madre Mountains Sierra Madre Occidental Sonoran High Ranges
America Sierra Madre Mountains Sierra Madre Occidental Eastern Upland With Basins
America Sierra Madre Mountains Sierra Madre Oriental Northern section
America Sierra Madre Mountains Sierra Madre Oriental The High Sierra
America Sierra Madre Mountains Sierra Madre Oriental Cross ranges
America Sierra Madre Mountains Sierra Madre Oriental Lower ranges
America Sierra Madre Mountains Sierra Madre del Sur Balsas-Mexcala Basin
America Sierra Madre Mountains Sierra Madre del Sur Oaxaca Upland
America Sierra Madre Mountains Sierra Madre del Sur Northeast Folded Ranges
America Sierra Madre Mountains Sierra Madre del Sur Southern Slope
America Sierra Madre Mountains Sierra Madre del Sur Northern section
America Sierra Madre Mountains Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt
America Sierra Madre Mountains Southern Mexican Highlands
America Baja California Southern eyrie
America Baja California Llano de la Magdalena
America Baja California Colorado Delta
America The Buried Ranges Sonoran Desert
America The Buried Ranges Deltas
America The Buried Ranges Sinaloa Coast
America The Buried Ranges Piedmont Ranges
America Central Mesa
America Gulf Coastal Lowland
America Neovolcanic Plateau
America Chiapas Guatemala Highlands
America Gulf Coast Plain And Yucatan Peninsula Pitted Lowlands
America Gulf Coast Plain And Yucatan Peninsula Yucatan Platform
America Gulf Coast Plain And Yucatan Peninsula East coast
America To the North Andes Cordillera Occidental (Ecuador) and Cordillera Occidental (Bolivia)
America To the North Andes Cordillera Central
America To the North Andes Cordillera Oriental
America To the North Andes Magdalena Basin
America To the North Andes Maracaibo basin
America To the Central Andes Cordillera Occidental
America To the Central Andes Atacama Desert
America To the Central Andes Altiplano
America To the Central Andes Cordillera Oriental
America To the Southern Andes Fuegian Andes
America To the Central Andes Patagonian Andes
America To the Central Andes Andean Piedmont
America Brazilian mountain country Brazilian Oldland
America Brazilian mountain country Goiás massif
America Brazilian mountain country Mato Grosso Plateau
America Brazilian mountain country Guayan shield
America Brazilian mountain country Chiquitos Plateau
America Brazilian mountain country Parana plateau
America Brazilian mountain country Coastal plain
America Guayan shield Coastal plain
America Amazon lowlands Llanos De Mojos
America Orinoco basin
America Parana-Paraguay Plain Gran Chaco
America Parana-Paraguay Plain Pantanal
America Parana-Paraguay Plain Argentine Mesopotamia
America Parana-Paraguay Plain pampas
America Parana-Paraguay Plain Monte
America Patagonia
Australia West Australian Shield Yilgarn block Stirling-Mount Ingot Block
Australia West Australian Shield Yilgarn block Darling Hills
Australia West Australian Shield Yilgarn block Research shelf
Australia West Australian Shield Donnybrook Sunkland Naturalist Leeuwin Horst
Australia West Australian Shield Swan Coastal Belt
Australia West Australian Shield Swan Coastal Belt Dandaragan Plateau
Australia West Australian Shield Swan Coastal Belt Greenough Block
Australia West Australian Shield Swan Coastal Belt Rottnest-Abrolhos Shelf
Australia West Australian Shield Carnarvon Basin Shark Bay-Byro Plains
Australia West Australian Shield Nullagine Platform Pilbara block
Australia West Australian Shield Nullagine Platform Fortescue Rift
Australia West Australian Shield Nullagine Platform Hamersley Plateau
Australia West Australian Shield Nullagine Platform Onslow Coastal Plain
Australia West Australian Shield Nullagine Platform Dampier Rise
Australia West Australian Shield Canning Basin
Australia West Australian Shield Canning Basin Pindan Country
Australia West Australian Shield Canning Basin Fitzroy Valley
Australia West Australian Shield Canning Basin Rowley Depression
Australia West Australian Shield Kimberly block King Leopold Range
Australia West Australian Shield Kimberly block Durack Range
Australia West Australian Shield Kimberly block Leveque Rise
Australia West Australian Shield Kimberly block Browse depression
Australia West Australian Shield Kimberly block Londonderry Rise
Australia West Australian Shield Antrim region Ord Basin
Australia West Australian Shield Antrim region Cambridge Gulf Lowlands
Australia West Australian Shield Antrim region Bonaparte Depression
Australia West Australian Shield Arnhem block Pine Creek Belt
Australia West Australian Shield Arnhem block Van Dieman Rise
Australia West Australian Shield Arnhem block Arafura Shelf
Australia West Australian Shield Arnhem block Wessel Rise
Australia West Australian Shield Arunta-Sturt block
Australia West Australian Shield Barkly Tableland Mueller plateau
Australia West Australian Shield Barkly Tableland Sandover-Pituri Platform
Australia West Australian Shield Mount Isa-Cloncurry Fold Belt
Australia West Australian Shield MacDonnell Fold Belt
Australia West Australian Shield Amadeus Sunkland
Australia West Australian Shield Musgrave block
Australia West Australian Shield Nurrari Plain
Australia West Australian Shield Eucla Basin Eyre Coastal Plain
Australia West Australian Shield Eucla Basin Eucla Shelf
Australia West Australian Shield Gawler block
Australia West Australian Shield Gawler block Stuart Range Basin
Australia West Australian Shield Gawler block Pimba Platform
Australia West Australian Shield South Australian Shatter Belt Torrens trench
Australia West Australian Shield South Australian Shatter Belt Spencer Dig
Australia West Australian Shield South Australian Shatter Belt Vincent Ditch
Australia West Australian Shield South Australian Shatter Belt Yorke Horst
Australia West Australian Shield South Australian Shatter Belt Frome ditch
Australia West Australian Shield Willyama block
Australia East Australian Basins Carpentaria Basin
Australia East Australian Basins Carpentaria Basin Gulf of Carpentaria
Australia East Australian Basins Carpentaria Basin Kynuna Platform
Australia East Australian Basins Great Artesian Basin
Australia East Australian Basins Great Artesian Basin Wilcannia Threshold
Australia East Australian Basins Murray Basin
Australia East Australian Basins Murray Basin Naracoorte Platform
Australia East Australian Basins Murray Basin Encounter shelf
Australia Australian Cordillera Cape York Platform
Australia Australian Cordillera Cape York Platform Coen Belt
Australia East Australian Cordillera Cape York Platform Torres Strait Islands
Australia East Australian Cordillera Etheridge Dome
Australia East Australian Cordillera North Queensland Highlands
Australia East Australian Cordillera North Queensland Highlands Chillagoe Belt
Australia East Australian Cordillera North Queensland Highlands Normanby Platform
Australia East Australian Cordillera North Queensland Highlands Atherton Tableland
Australia East Australian Cordillera North Queensland Highlands Mount Emu Lava Plains
Australia East Australian Cordillera North Queensland Highlands Cairns Littoral
Australia East Australian Cordillera Great Barrier Reef
Australia East Australian Cordillera Great Barrier Reef Murray Islands
Australia East Australian Cordillera Central Queensland Highlands Bowen-Springsure Belt
Australia East Australian Cordillera Central Queensland Highlands Buckland Basalt Tablelands
Australia East Australian Cordillera Rockhampton-Brisbane Belt Maryborough Basin
Australia East Australian Cordillera Rockhampton-Brisbane Belt Toowoomba basalt plateaus
Australia East Australian Cordillera New England block
Australia East Australian Cordillera New England block Clarence Basin
Australia East Australian Cordillera Hunter-Hawkesbury Sunkland
Australia East Australian Cordillera Hunter-Hawkesbury Sunkland Sydney Basin
Australia East Australian Cordillera Hunter-Hawkesbury Sunkland Warrumbungle-Liverpool Basalt Ranges
Australia East Australian Cordillera Hunter-Hawkesbury Sunkland Blue Mountains
Australia East Australian Cordillera Central Highlands Of New South Wales
Australia East Australian Cordillera Central Highlands Of New South Wales Western slopes
Australia East Australian Cordillera Cobar Platform
Australia East Australian Cordillera Kosciusko Massif
Australia East Australian Cordillera Kosciusko Massif Gourock-Monaro Belt
Australia East Australian Cordillera Eastern Victorian Highlands
Australia East Australian Cordillera Western Victorian Highlands
Australia East Australian Cordillera Western Victorian Highlands Grampians
Australia East Australian Cordillera Western Basalt Plains Of Victoria
Australia East Australian Cordillera Western Basalt Plains Of Victoria Otway Hills
Australia East Australian Cordillera Gippsland South Gippsland Hills
Australia East Australian Cordillera Gippsland Port Phillip Sunkland
Australia East Australian Cordillera Western Tasmanian Highlands
Australia East Australian Cordillera Western Tasmanian Highlands Central Tasmanian Plateau
Australia East Australian Cordillera Bass Midland Trench
Australia East Australian Cordillera Bass Midland Trench Bass Strait
Australia East Australian Cordillera Ben Lomond Block
Eurasia Baltic shield Norway Upland
Eurasia Baltic shield Swedish Lowland
Eurasia Baltic shield Lake Region
Eurasia Baltic shield Karelian Trough
Eurasia Baltic shield English Lowlands
Eurasia Central European highlands Hibernian Uplands
Eurasia Central European highlands Cornish Welsh Uplands
Eurasia Central European highlands Pennines
Eurasia Central European highlands Scottish Highlands
Eurasia Central European highlands Armorican massif
Eurasia Central European highlands Central Massif (Massif Central)
Eurasia Central European highlands Iberian meseta
Eurasia Central European highlands law
Eurasia Central European highlands Vosges and Black Forest
Eurasia Central European highlands Swiss-Bavarian plateau
Eurasia Central European highlands Bohemian mass
Eurasia Central European highlands Cantabrian Mountains
Eurasia Alpine system Pyrenees
Eurasia Alpine system Alps Southern Alps
Eurasia Alpine system Alps Western Alps
Eurasia Alpine system Alps Eastern Alps
Eurasia Alpine system Alps Cantabrian Mountains
Eurasia Alpine system Apennines
Eurasia Alpine system Ebro Lowlands
Eurasia Alpine system Volcanic Lowlands
Eurasia Alpine system Spanish meseta
Eurasia Alpine system Dinaric-Grecian Mountains
Eurasia Alpine system Dinaric-Grecian Mountains Pindus
Eurasia Alpine system Andalusian Lowlands
Eurasia Alpine system Corsardinian Highlands
Eurasia Alpine system Baetic Cordillera
Eurasia Alpine system Hungarian Basin
Eurasia Alpine system Transylvanian Basin
Eurasia Alpine system Central Balkan Ranges
Eurasia Alpine system Carpathians
Eurasia Alpine system Caucasus
Eurasia Alpine system Caucasus Greater Caucasus
Eurasia Alpine system Caucasus Lesser Caucasus
Eurasia Alpine system Caucasus Transcaucasian Depressian
Eurasia Alpine system Caucasus Kolkhida Lowland
Eurasia European level Aquitaine Basin
Eurasia European level Netherlands
Eurasia European level North German Lowlands
Eurasia European level Polish marshland
Eurasia European level Dnieper lowlands
Eurasia European level Volhyn- Podolian Plate
Eurasia European level Wallachian Plain
Eurasia European level Azov plain
Eurasia European level Siverskyi Donets-Azov Plateau
Eurasia European level Central Russian heights
Eurasia European level Oka-Don lowlands
Eurasia European level Eastern European level
Eurasia Ural Northern Urals
Eurasia Ural Middle Urals
Eurasia Ural Southern Urals
Eurasia Zagros
Eurasia Middle Eastern highlands Bitlis Mountains
Eurasia Middle Eastern highlands Kopet-Dag
Eurasia Middle Eastern highlands Elburs Mountains Western Elburs
Eurasia Middle Eastern highlands Elburs Mountains Middle Elburs
Eurasia Middle Eastern highlands Elburs Mountains Eastern Elbors
Eurasia Middle Eastern highlands Central Iranian plateau Dascht-e Kavir
Eurasia Middle Eastern highlands Central Iranian plateau Dascht-e Lut
Eurasia Middle Eastern highlands Pontus Mountains
Eurasia Middle Eastern highlands Taurus Mountains
Eurasia Middle Eastern highlands Anatolian plateau
Eurasia Fertile crescent
Eurasia West Siberian Lowlands taiga
Eurasia West Siberian Lowlands Kazak Steppes
Eurasia Central Siberian mountain country Yenisei Horst
Eurasia Central Siberian mountain country Irkutsk plain
Eurasia Central Siberian mountain country Viljui level
Eurasia Central Siberian mountain country Aldan basin
Eurasia Central Siberian mountain country Yakut basin
Eurasia East Siberian highlands Anadyr Mountains
Eurasia East Siberian highlands Kolyma Mountains
Eurasia East Siberian highlands Kamchatka
Eurasia East Siberian highlands Verkhoyansk Mountains
Eurasia East Siberian highlands Stanovoi Mountains
Eurasia East Siberian highlands Sichote-Alin
Eurasia East Siberian highlands Sakhalin
Eurasia North Asian Mountains Kentei Hills
Eurasia Central Asia Altai
Eurasia Central Asia Taklamakan
Eurasia Central Asia Baikal Basin
Eurasia Central Asia Djungarian basin
Eurasia Central Asia Gobi
Eurasia Central Asia Qaidam Basin Zaidam / Tsaidam / Qinghai / Qaidam Basin
Eurasia North Indian Plain
Eurasia Himalayas Hindukush
Eurasia Himalayas Lower Himalayas
Eurasia Himalayas High himalayas
Eurasia Himalayas Tethys Himalayas
Eurasia Himalayas Pamir
Eurasia Himalayas Tibetan plateau
Eurasia Dekkan Western Ghats
Eurasia Dekkan Eastern Ghats
Eurasia Dekkan Nagpur basin
Eurasia Dekkan Vindhya Mountains
Eurasia Dekkan Satpura Mountains
Eurasia Dekkan Bihar hill landscape

literature

  • Engineering Geology Lecture 13 . In: University of Connecticut (Ed.): Geology 229 . (English, pdf ).
  • Nevin M. Fenneman: Physiographic Subdivision of the United States . In: Annals of the Association of American Geographers . 1916 (English, pdf , pnas.org).

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