Loess - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Loess (pronounced /ˈloʊ.əs/ , /lʌs/ , or /lɛs/ ) is an aeolian sediment formed by the accumulation of wind-blown silt and lesser and variable amounts of sand and clay. Loes...
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Loess Plateau - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Loess Plateau (simplified Chinese: ; traditional Chinese: ; pinyin#ifeq:yes: huángtǔ gāoyuán nonononono), also known as the Huangtu Plateau, is a plateau that covers an area of some 640,000 km...
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Encyclopedia article about Loess soil. Information about Loess soil in the Columbia Encyclopedia, Computer Desktop Encyclopedia, computing dictionary. ... The Kremstal is adjacent to the Wachau, and its combination of loess soil and primary rock make for wines with slightly greater body.
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Memphis, Tennessee is at risk for harm from an earthquake generated by the New Madrid Seismic Zone because of the nature of its underlying loess soil. Loess has very low load-bearing strength when moist, and can collapse or shift under high precipitation, especially on slopes.
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Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Loess soil. Loess soil. Information about Loess soil in the Hutchinson encyclopedia. ... The Kremstal is adjacent to the Wachau, and its combination of loess soil and primary rock make for wines with slightly greater body.
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This study focuses on a Barton County loess-soil section in central Kansas in an attempt to retrieve the geochemical signature of the late Quaternary environmental change in the arid-semiarid region and provide a data base of loess geochemical characteristics in the Great Plains.
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Locally, this loess soil is named "sugar clay" because of this erosion. Oddly enough when loess is covered with topsoil, loess can slump. It slumps in a uniform manner across a slope creating a characteristic "cat step" ledges seen on grassy hills.
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It is now very rich prairie soil. Palouse wheat fields grow, mostly wheat, lentils and peas. Some of the land is left bare for one growing season. This is called summer fallow. When I was a kid, they told me the summer fallow land was resting.
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The Miocene loess-soil sequences, combined with the well-known Quaternary loess-soil sequence and the Late Miocene-Pliocene Hipparion Red-Earth formation, provides a unique continuous eolian record of paleoclimates since the early Neogene...
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Samples from 13 different treatments in long-term stationary experiment of Shaanxi loess soil, were collected for agricultural soil faunas analysis by ... soil faunas analysis by handsorting and Cobb method. 3530 species of agricultural soil fauna had been collected and identified, belonged to 6 Phyla, 12 Classes, 23 Orders,
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