Earthscape

• earthscape

From Earth +‎ -scape, modelled after landscape.

Earthscape (plural Earthscapes)

1. A view of the Earth or a part thereof, emphasizing its geological history and the natural and man-made processes that created it.
   • 1983, Cleveland Museum of Art, The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art:

     In an earthscape where man or evidence of man is prominent, we see him actively engaged in planting, reaping, and traveling […]

   • 2008, Joseph F. Reese, “Earthscape Edinboro: An Earth Systems Based Educational Model to Connect Locals with Their Locale”, in 2008 Joint Annual Meeting of the ASA, CSSA, and SSSA‎^[1]:

     This project focuses on documenting the distinctive, defining aspects of Edinboro's earthscape. These aspects include the Lake Erie shoreline (especially Presque Isle), lake-effect weather, French Creek watershed, Devonian bedrock (especially related to petroleum history), viticulture, and glacial landforms.

   • 2015 July 21, Stephen Buchmann, The Reason for Flowers: Their History, Culture, Biology, and How They Change Our Lives, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 41:

     Yet never do we pause to wonder why the monotonous greens and browns over the long expanse of time before flowers arrived on earth gave way so suddenly—abruptly enough on the evolutionary scale to cause Darwin great concern—to an earthscape where flowers became nearly ubiquitous

2. A view of the earth rising above the lunar horizon as seen from the moon or from a spacecraft.

Earthscape (third-person singular simple present Earthscapes, present participle Earthscaping, simple past and past participle Earthscaped)

1. (transitive) To take an Earthscape photograph.
2. (transitive) To landscape on a grand scale.
3. (transitive) To terraform.

• Reese, J. F. (2008). Earthscape Edinboro: An Earth systems based educational model to connect locals with their locale [Abstract]. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs.

• earthspace, eparchates, heartscape