REPREZENTAREA RELIEFULUI PE HARTI SI ÎN LUCRARI GEOGRAFICE DE-A LUNGUL VREMII/RELIEF PLOTTING ON MAPS AND IN GEOGRAPHICAL STUDIES IN TIME

Abstract

In the present paper, it rendered the evolution of the way relief is reproduced on maps from the Antiquity nowadays and it underlined the used methods of representation (diagrammatic, pictorial, and hachures by means of isohypses, shadows or combined) with examples and qualitative estimates. In the last 150 years, in the geomorphologic studies, it has been necessary to analyse and represent the relief by means of other methods that are not genuinely map drawing, but they mainly rely on the data offered by the topographical maps, such as: the geomorphologic, morphostructural profile, panoramic sketch, and block diagram. Meanwhile, as they are associated with the general and special geomorphologic maps, these types of representation increase the understanding capacity of the problems the relief and their exposure pose.