A geologist from The University of Texas at Arlington is investigating the origin of loess, a sediment formed by the accumulation of wind-blown dust, in the western United States. The National Science ...

Discover the history and ecology of Iowa's Loess Hills. Discover the history and ecology of Iowa's Loess Hills. Road Trip Iowa is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on ...

Loess deposits, composed predominantly of wind‐blown silt, together with their intercalated palaeosol sequences, constitute one of the most significant terrestrial archives for reconstructing ...

XIAN, China, Sept. 1 (UPI) --New research suggests China's Loess Plateau, the largest dust deposit in the world, was formed by the winds blowing across the Mu Us Desert -- like a leaf blower piles ...

The world's largest loess deposits are found in northern China's Shaanxi and Shanxi provinces and the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Over the past centuries, they have fed the local people with ...

The byway also threads its way through remarkable public lands. At Broken Kettle Grasslands Preserve, you can find a herd of around 30 bison and a variety of grassland wildlife, such as the extremely ...

Vol. 36, No. 2/3, Loess-Paleosol and Paleoclimatic Investigations: Principles, Methods and Criteria (June/July 1995), pp. 275-280 (6 pages) Due to its physical and chemical properties, areas with a ...

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1. China has been investing heavily in afforestation programmes to control soil erosion on the vast Chinese Loess Plateau (CLP). This massive afforestation has led to a considerable increase in forest ...

In 1994, workers took part in the rehabilitation of the Loess Plateau landscape. In 1994, workers took part in the rehabilitation of the Loess Plateau landscape. John D. Liu has documented the results ...