loess

How To Use loess In A Sentence

• Land clearing has promoted vast sheet erosion and gullying and consequent re-deposition of loess in the valley bottoms. Ecoregions of Iowa and Missouri (EPA)
• 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.
• During the deglaciation phases of the Pleistocene glaciations, wind-blown silt was deposited on a spectacular scale in extensive, stoneless loess. Times, Sunday Times