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• The unforested hills and plateaus of the Dissected Loess Uplands ecoregion are cut by the canyons of Ecoregion 10l and are disjunct. Ecoregions of Idaho (EPA)
• R. Warington, J.T. Schloessing, C.A. Müntz and others had proved that nitrification was promoted by some organism, when Winogradsky hit on the happy idea of isolating the organism by using gelatinous silica, and so avoiding the difficulties which Warington had shown to exist with the organism in presence of organic nitrogen, owing to its refusal to nitrify on gelatine or other nitrogenous media. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
• Loess is a fine-grained aeolian sediment, typically liberated by the grinding action of glaciers, which may be transported great distances and indicates both windiness and aridity.
• Many researchers have concluded this sediment is actually loess, or wind-blown silt, which is mixed with some clay and sand.
• Terraces by the fourth grade alluvial, alluvial material , thick loess soil better.
• Loess is a terrestrial sediment formed by the accumulation of wind-blown dust.
• We can easily see that the melting away of the immense glaciers that we have been describing would produce vast floods in the rivers, and it is perhaps owing to the presence of such swollen rivers that are due the great beds of surface soil, called loam or loess, found in all the river valleys of France and Germany. The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races
• Companion studies of dust samples from the Sahara and the Saudi coast and loess from China show that the higher the calcium in the mineral, the more reactive they are in with nitric acid.
• Nature conditions are scurviness in hilly and gully region on northwest loess plateau, which is one of the most serious region in our country.
• Stockbreeding is one of the traditional dominant industries on Loess Plateau, and it is also the foundation to develop the country economy in Northwest China.