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1. PROFILES
The drawing of a profile from a contour-map may
be of very great assistance in visualizing the relief,
and in the description and explanation of the land-
forms. A geomorphologist in particular, seeking to
analyze the nature of relief, is interested in surfaces
with different slopes, corresponding to periods of
peneplanation and of aggradation, but contour-
maps often fail to bring out these significant
surfaces.

2. Types of Profiles
1. Serial Profiles 2.Superimposed Profiles 3.Projected Profiles 4.Composite Profiles