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Slope Complexity

Describes the relative ground surface uniformity (smooth = simple/S) or irregularity (complex/C) downslope through the site.

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.