toposequence
toposequence Sequence of soils in which distinctive soil characteristics are related to the topographic situation.
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distinct , dis·tinct / disˈtingkt/ • adj. 1. recognizably different in nature from something else of a similar type: the patterns of spoken language are distinc… Characteristic , char·ac·ter·is·tic / ˌkariktəˈristik/ • adj. typical of a particular person, place, or thing: large farms are characteristic of this area. • n. 1. a… hydraulic boundary , hydraulic boundary Within a groundwater system, the interface between regions of different hydraulic characteristics such as porosity, storativity (s… biotopographic unit , biotopographic unit
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