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Motivated by the requirements of groundwater flow simulations in natural resource management, we give an algorithm that produces two-dimensional all-quad meshes of geographic regions with complex boundaries, often defined by rivers, watershed boundaries and geological features. Our algorithm fills the interior of a region with a regular grid, and fills the geometrically complex boundary regions using...