Meanings
- alternativeuncountableAlternative form of loess.
In northern China, the Löss Plateau dates back at least two million years and consists of alternating layers of löss and soil.
2023, Daniele L. R. Marini, “Chinese Philosophical and Mathematical Thought”, in Imago Cosmi: The Vision of the Cosmos and the History of Astronomical Machines (Astronomers’ Universe), Springer Nature, →ISBN, footnote 2, page 3212 more examples
All those tracts of löss which occur within the valleys proper come under the designation of valley-löss, while the term “hill-löss” is applied to those masses which are less closely connected with the valleys, and sometimes extend over plateaux and hilly ground between separate drainage-areas.
1881, James Geikie, Prehistoric Europe: A Geological Sketch, London: Edward Stanford, […], page 147Among the mountains of middle Germany, and along the north border, there have been found two distinct deposits of löss separated by a weathered zone.
1910, Frank Leverett, Comparison of North American and European Glacial Deposits, Berlin: Gebrüder Borntraeger, page 301
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