Books on Topography

• de Blij, H. J., P. O. Muller, J. E. Burt, & J. A. Mason, 2013, Physical Geography of the Global Environment, Oxford University Press, New York, 626 pp.
• Trimble, D.E., 1980, The Geologic Story of the Great Plains, Geological Survey Bulletin 1493, US Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C.
• Wyckoff, J., 1999, Reading the Earth: Landforms in the Making, Adastra West, Mahwah, NJ, 352 pp.

Topographic Maps

• Color Landform Atlas of the US. (Low resolution shaded relief maps of each state.)
• Topoquest.

Websites on Topography

• OpenLandform Catalog, Education Resources, OpenTopography. [High resolution topographic images that may be useful in teaching.]
• Physiographic Provinces, in: Earth Science Concepts: Geology by Region, National Park Service.
• Teaching Geomorphology in the 21st Century, On the Cutting Edge‚ Strong Undergraduate Geoscience Teaching, SERC. [A set of resources for college level, some of which may be adaptable to secondary education.]
• Teaching with Google Earth, On the Cutting Edge‚ Starting Point: Teaching Entry Level Geoscience, SERC.
• United States Geography, by S.S. Birdsall & J. Florin.
• US Geography: The Land Geography, Landscape, and Landforms of the US, 50 State Guide, eReference Desk. [Includes state-by-state information on geography.]

Topography Resources for the Southwest

• Davis, W., 2013, River Notes: a Natural and Human History of the Colorado, Island Press, Washington, D.C., 176 pp.
• Owen, D., 2015, Where the river runs dry: the Colorado and America's water crisis, The New Yorker (May 25, 2015)
• Physiographic Provinces, Virtual Geologic Tour of New Mexico, New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineralogical Resources.
• Sand Dunes of the Southwest, by Peter Olsen.