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RUSLE: revised universal soil loss equation
SCS: Soil Conservation Service
T: tolerable soil loss
USDA-NRI: United States Department of Agriculture-National Resource
Inventory

USLE: universal soil loss equation

WEPP: Water Erosion Prediction Project

YBP: years before present

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