loess

Example Sentences

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This entry-level bottle is from vines grown on loess and loam on gentle slopes.

From New York Times

Subsurface pressure and temperature effects cause changes in the composition and properties of rocks, and from these we reap flint, chert, loess, kaolin, granite and clay.

From Nature

The dust plume was likely comprised of fine-grained loess, which was formed as glacial ice moved over the area and ground the underlying rock into a powder.

From The Guardian

The soils, a mixture of ice age flood sediment and windblown loess, also add to the wines’ character.

From Seattle Times

Rising on the Tibetan plateau, it cuts a giant loop through the loess badlands of China’s north-west—the famous “yellow earth” formed of fine dust blown from the Gobi desert.

From Economist