local relief

local relief
    a) An informal term referring to the prevailing difference in elevation between drainageways or local depressions and adjacent elevated landforms (on a local scale).
   Compare: relief, microrelief.
   SW.
    b) A generic term referring to the collective, relative differences in elevation of a land surface on a broad scale.
   SSM

Glossary of landform and geologic terms. 2013.

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