This slide illustrates the remote deposition that occurs with a terrace system.
Soil loss occurs on the inter-terrace interval.
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.
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.
Sediment Yield = Soil Loss from Inter-terrace interval – Deposition in terrace