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Distances in Earth Science and Astronomy

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In Geography, spatial scales are shorthand terms for distances, sizes and areas. For example, micro, meso, macro, mega may refer to local (0.001–1), regional (1–100), continental (100–10,000), global ( > 10,000) km, respectively.

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Deza, M.M., Deza, E. (2014). Distances in Earth Science and Astronomy. In: Encyclopedia of Distances. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44342-2_25

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