I learned some fine landscape words from reading Barry Lopez’s Arctic Dreams.  Orographic means ‘relating to mountains, especially as regards their position and form.  Or, of clouds or rainfall resulting from the effects of mountains in forcing moist air to rise. Orography is the branch of physical geography dealing with the formation and features of mountains.’

‘Floating orographic landscapes.’

Source: OED and Barry Lopez, Arctic Dreams, p. 207

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