loess
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It has reduced sediment loads through soil conservation projects on the Loess Plateau.
From Science Magazine • May 13, 2021
Silt from these glaciers has piled up in mounds large enough to become their own landforms, here called the Loess Hills.
From New York Times • Jul. 29, 2019
On Iowa’s west coast, the muddy Missouri raged through the Loess hills and valleys and took entire towns with it – Pacific Junction, population 470, and Hamburg, population 1,187.
From The Guardian • May 30, 2019
The discovery shows that early forms of human were able to survive on the Loess Plateau in northern China under a variety of climatic conditions.
From BBC • Jul. 11, 2018
A part, however, of the so-called Loess of northern France, e.g. in the valley of the Somme, is rain-wash, similar in character to the brick-earth of parts of south-eastern England.
From The Antiquity of Man by Lyell, Charles, Sir
Vocabulary lists containing loess
Western Europe - Introductory
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East Asia - Middle School
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East Asia - High School
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