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plane table
1.
n.
[Geology]
ID: 391
A flat drawing board mounted on a tripod used in combination with an alidade to construct topographic or
geologic
maps in the
field
. A sheet of paper or mylar covering the plane table is annotated during
map
construction.
See:
alidade
,
base map
,
geologic map
,
topographic map
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