How To Use Loess In A Sentence
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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)
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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.
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Many researchers have concluded this sediment is actually loess, or wind-blown silt, which is mixed with some clay and sand.
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Terraces by the fourth grade alluvial, alluvial material , thick loess soil better.
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Loess is a terrestrial sediment formed by the accumulation of wind-blown dust.
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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
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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.
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Nature conditions are scurviness in hilly and gully region on northwest loess plateau, which is one of the most serious region in our country.
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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.
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During the deglaciation phases of the Pleistocene glaciations, wind-blown silt was deposited on a spectacular scale in extensive, stoneless loess.
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Then suddenly, beyond Linxia, the loess hills have gone, and our valley steepens into stone.
Times, Sunday Times
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In this paper the casualty loess landfall are classified into two types according to their modes of development: tension-sliding loess landfall and collapsed earth cave dwelling .
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Loess is extremely porous, and the surface is consequently dry.
Geography Basic Facts
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Loess the age which forms according to it may divide into, forms under pleistocene epoch Q1 noon city loess and pleistocene epoch Q2 to the stone loess, is called the old loess.
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Special experiments were conducted to analyze gravitational erosion variation in rill evolution process on loess slope.
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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"
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Periods of loess deposition are found to correlate with glacial periods when loess profiles are compared to palaeoclimatic evidence from deep-sea cores.
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Loess Plateau in North Shaanxi Province is an unenclosed ecology-economy system with characteristics of mountain area, and it is very fragile.
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Selecting soils from stable upland positions that developed in loessic parent material allowed us to isolate modern climate as the main influence on soil properties.
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It has a relatively large component of loess and contains ovoid inclusions of loessic silt which were deposited by solifluction.
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The regionally immense deposits of rich loess soils, for example in the Midwest, are also of aeolian origin.
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Loess is a clay that is easily cut and holds its shape; it can be incredibly accommodating as a building material.
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Now that we have some visuals of what a dune, yardang, a loess are we can go into the actual definitions.
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Extensive "barrens" (i.e. bluestem prairies) were once maintained by fires set by Native Americans on rolling to flat parts of the Interior Plateau (71) and Mississippi Valley Loess Plains (74).
Ecoregions of Kentucky (EPA)
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If climate is the primary consideration the shingle soils, the loessic down-soils, the limestone upland-soils, and the alluvial flats in the neighbourhood of Timaru would all fall into the same group.
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The Chengchuan Formation are heteropic deposits ( sandy and loessic facies ) formed contemporaneously under the wind action.
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We have sampled loessic soils with a truck-mounted soil probe from more than 70 stable undisturbed upland positions from Nebraska to Illinois.
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In flat coastal plains and piedmonts, yields appear to increase five to ten-fold with agriculture, whereas in loess terrains 100-fold increases are typical.
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In the process of research the collapsible loess, it get many differently methods.
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The dedication in the banderole at the bottom states: ‘I painted my portrait in the year 1940 for Dr Leo Eloesser my doctor and my friend.’
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In his defence, he's equally engaging about why easeful vernacular phrasing by such figures as Dorothy Fields ( "I Can't Give You Anything But Love") and Frank Loesser ( "Sit Down, You're Rockin 'the Boat") makes their writing so strong.
Finishing the Hat: The Collected Lyrics of Stephen Sondheim by Stephen Sondheim – review
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The south-eastern slope bears heavy loessic soil, mixed with superficial pebbles and compact loam soil.
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In other words, you can look at one face and see loess topped by a paleosol and then covered in flow deposits.
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The others are Steven Schwartz's "The Baker's Wife" (1976), like "Fanny" based on a story by Marcel Pagnol, and Frank Loesser's "The Most Happy Fella" (1957).
Fanny
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The second law can be applied to the prediction of creep failure, such as rockslides, colluvial-deposit landslides and loess landslides as well as clay landslides with locked patches.
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The Taoist ignited the loess - made yellow paper when offering sacrifice.
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The 4 tree species in genus Larix introduced into the Loess Hilly Region in northwest China grew normally though the growth rate was small because of water deficiency.
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The mineralogy of loess commonly differs considerably from that of the underlying bedrock, further demonstrating its derivation from a distant source.
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Then something strange happened: The loess in the terraces wasn’t on top of crushed rock anymore — it was on top of very finely laminated clay-rich sediments.
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Quite unlike today's northern barrens, it combined Arctic tundra with fertile loess soil and low latitudes the Eurasian tundra belt having been pushed far to the south by the Scandinavian icecap.
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Even though such warm, relatively moist phases usually lasted only a few hundred years, and started out from the skeletal loess desert/semi-desert soils of glacial conditions (with which they are inter-leaved), these buried steppe soils have all the rich organic content of a present-day chernozem soil that has had many thousands of years to build up its carbon (E. Zelikson, Russian Academy of Sciences, pers. comm.,
The Future of Power Generation: Nuclear Fusion
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In this paper the casualty loess landfall are classified into two types according to their modes of development: tension-sliding loess landfall and collapsed earth cave dwelling .
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Unless the loess bones of me and keep you the centenary worryfree.
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When irrigated loess can be very fertile and consequently high yields can be obtained from crops grown on loess deposits.
Geography Basic Facts
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This ecoregion has a relatively homogeneous topography of level to gently rolling glacial till plains with areas of morainal hills and loess deposits.
Ecoregions of North Dakota and South Dakota (EPA)
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(Other words that had me rifling through the dictionary: “gryke,” “rachitic,” “siwash,” “loess.”)
A White-Line Nightmare, After the End of the World
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The largely unforested, loess-covered Palouse Hills ecoregion abuts the Rocky Mountains and has more available moisture than other parts of Ecoregion 10.
Ecoregions of Idaho (EPA)
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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)
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Loess is a clay that is easily cut and holds its shape; it can be incredibly accommodating as a building material.
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Large areas of southern Arkansas are also covered by Pleistocene-era loess, with some deposits over 4 m thick.
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Mr. Henry Schloesser, barrister-at-law of the Inner Temple, [Footnote: In his pamphlet published by the Women's Social and Political Union.] very explicitly explains how they affect women.
Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman
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They are a series of giant alluvial fans made up of coarse greywacke-derived gravel, up to 500 meters (m) deep in places, and overlaid with loess.
Cantebury-Otago tussock grasslands
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Special experiments were conducted to analyze gravitational erosion variation in rill evolution process on loess slope.
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The Loess Plateau in Shaanxi is honeycombed with caves.
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To what depth the mud extends is not known, but it resembles the loess in being generally devoid of stratification, and of shells, though containing occasionally land shells in abundance, as well as calcareous concretions, called kunkur, which may be compared to the nodules of carbonate of lime sometimes observed to form layers in the Rhenish loess.
The Antiquity of Man
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No one told us how they were shaped as silt deposits, called loess, that blew in from the Missouri River floodplain, beginning about 30,000 years ago.
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The second law can be applied to the prediction of creep failure, such as rockslides, colluvial-deposit landslides and loess landslides as well as clay landslides with locked patches.
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The thickest loess occurs in central China on the Loess Plateau, where it reaches a thickness of about 330 m near Lanzhou.
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We found some pretty neat stuff: a few places with heaps of charcoal and good potential for radiocarbon dates; old tree roots (I think) sticking out of the loess, which could be evidence of the area previously being forested, as they were quite big and can be dated as well; a tall cliff of loess (no rocks!) with a paleosol in the middle.
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One reason is to avoid rupturing the vegetation mat and exposing the fine-grained sand and loess beneath, which are prone to aeolian erosion, another is reduced forage quality.
Climate change impacts on the Yamal Nenets of northwest Siberia
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Yet the lure of this comic-romantic fairy tale of mismatched lovers who finally tumble into each other's uncertain arms, primarily depends upon the imperishable music and witty lyrics of Frank Loesser.
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Unless the loess bones of me and keep you the centenary worryfree.
