| Large areas of southern Arkansas are also covered by Pleistocene-era loess, with some deposits over 4 m thick. |
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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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| The series consists of very deep, well drained, fine silty alfisol formed in loess. |
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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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| The regionally immense deposits of rich loess soils, for example in the Midwest, are also of aeolian origin. |
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| Large-scale landslides and mass flowage of loess are frequently triggered by heavy, seasonal rainstorms in the drylands of Asia and elsewhere. |
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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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| 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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| Working through the landscape of loess, ochre and gorges dotted by scrawny willow trees, the train slowly chugs up to the Mongolian plateau. |
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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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| Almost the whole area is covered with a loess layer of varying thickness, deposited by the wind during the last ice age. |
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| Under the loess layer there is a layer of gravel, including rolled flintstones and sandstone fragments. |
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| The authors provide, in this paper, the first quantitative estimate of carbon stocks in Siberian loess permafrost. |
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| These strata are covered by a 10 to 15m layer of loess which, when exposed to erosion, gives rise to a network of ravines. |
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| Exposed to the elements, the loess and sand plateau was extensively cut by erosion, forming a dense network of some 300 ravines. |
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| The original substrate of the soils on the terrace surfaces in North Reutlingen consist of loess deposits in varying thicknesses. |
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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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| 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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| 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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| Sampled loess permafrost was analyzed for carbon content. |
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| That, combined with recent agreements by several big companies and government bodies to stop buying loess for fill in construction projects, suggests that the Loess Hills may have life in them yet. |
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| Continuous lithosequences have parent materials whose properties vary gradually along a transect, the prototypical example being soils formed on loess deposits at increasing distances downwind from their alluvial source. |
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| While the Loess Plateau is 300 m thick, the deposits consist of different types of material, and there is red clay underlying the upper layers of loess. |
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| Under these slopes and gorges lie soil variations of shist, slate, and compositions of loess. |
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| Taphonomical aspects of silica phytoliths in the loess sediments of the Argentinean Pampas. |
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| Micromorphological analysis of sediment samples suggests pedogenetic transformation of loess deposits with a possible dung component. |
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| During the Quaternary glaciations, Brittany was covered by loess and rivers started to fill the valleys with alluvial deposits. |
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| These eolian loess deposits may be very deep, even hundreds of meters, as in areas of China and the Midwestern United States of America. |
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| Desert sand dunes and loess are examples of aeolian transport and deposition. |
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| The famous Venus of Willendorf was excavated in 1908 in a loess deposit in the Danube valley, Austria. |
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| Through the centre of the Ruhr runs a segment of the loess belt that extends across Germany from west to east. |
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| Historically, this loess belt has underlain some of Germany's richest agricultural regions. |
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| Given the similarities with readings from people living on loess soils, the general direction of the local movement according to Price et al. |
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| The impact and rolling compaction towards soft ground like collapsible loess base can make them meet the requirements of bearing capacity and stability. |
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| One normally thinks of healing clay as a type of loess. |
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| All the layers of the marl are, however, covered with deep loess deposits. |
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| As the ice retreated and the rock dust dried, winds carried the material hundreds of miles, forming beds of loess many dozens of feet thick in the Missouri Valley. |
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| A layer of loess, a rather unstable fine silt deposited by the foehn winds which bluster across the plains, covers the northern and western flanks of the peninsula. |
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| The moraine landscape of northern Poland contains soils made up mostly of sand or loam, while the ice age river valleys of the south often contain loess. |
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| Linear loess hills known as pahas are superficially similar. |
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| First, the interstratification of loess with anthropogenic sand lenses in Pit 4 suggests this pit served the same function during different occupations. |
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| The loess cover, however, is not always uniform, particularly in the upper parts of valley slopes where underlying karstified limestone can be exposed at the surface. |
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