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This slide illustrates the
remote deposition that occurs with a terrace system.
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Soil loss occurs on the
inter-terrace interval.
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Soil loss on the
inter-terrace interval is less than soil loss without the terraces because
terraces shorten up the slope length.
Runoff on the lower inter-terrace interval originates at the next
terrace upslope, not from the very top of the hillslope.
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The deposition that occurs
in the terrace channels is remote deposition because the location of the
deposition is some distance from where the sediment was detached. Also, the deposition is concentrated in a
much smaller area than the area that produced the sediment.
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Sediment Yield = Soil Loss
from Inter-terrace interval – Deposition in terrace
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