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Loess Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
loess: [noun] an unstratified usually buff to yellowish brown loamy deposit found in North America, Europe, and Asia and believed to be chiefly deposited by the wind.
Loess - Deposits, Windblown, Soils | Britannica
Loess - Deposits, Windblown, Soils: The world’s largest loess-covered areas lie between latitudes 55° and 24° N: in China on the banks of the Huang Ho; on the margins of the continental deserts of Inner Asia; in Central Asia in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, the foreland of the Tien Shan, and east of the Caspian Sea; and in Siberia along Lake Baikal and the Lena River and in vast regions in the ...
Loess - National Geographic Society
Loess is mostly created by wind, but can also be formed by glaciers. When glaciers grind rocks to a fine powder, loess can form. Streams carry the powder to the end of the glacier. This sediment becomes loess. Loess ranges in thickness from a few centimeters to more than 91 meters (300 feet). Unlike other soils, loess is pale and loosely packed.
Loess - Wikipedia
Loess in Vicksburg, Mississippi, United States. A loess (US: / ˈ l ɛ s, ˈ l ʌ s, ˈ l oʊ. ə s /, UK: / ˈ l oʊ. ə s, ˈ l ɜː s /; from German: Löss) is a clastic, predominantly silt-sized sediment that is formed by the accumulation of wind-blown dust. Ten percent of Earth's land area is covered by loesses or similar deposits.. A loess is a periglacial or aeolian (windborne) sediment ...
Loess genesis and worldwide distribution - ScienceDirect
Loess is a loose aeolian deposit of yellowish silt-sized dust mostly formed during the Quaternary period. Generally, it has a homogenous and porous structure and consists primarily of quartz and felspar particles. Ancient Chinese scholars linked the formation of loess to wind-blown dust 2000 years ago.
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