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Horizon Topography

Cross-sectional shape of the contact between horizons.

Committee
Trace Materials
Date Added to Lexicon
Technical Report/Other Source (Author, Title of report. Publisher, Year.)
, Field Book for Describing and Sampling Soils. National Soil Survey Center, 2012.