Meanings
- alternativenot comparableAlternative form of loessic.
According to the Belgian geologists this upper clay is distinguished by the presence of remains of the reindeer, while those of the mammoth occur in the lower or lössic portion.
1881, James Geikie, Prehistoric Europe: A Geological Sketch, London: Edward Stanford, page 1552 more examples
By reason of the potential fertility of its lössic soils wherever water could be made available, it has afforded a productive agricultural base for political and military activity, and by reason of its location and physiography it has provided the entrance to the main routeway from the Chinese heartland to Central, and ultimately to Western, Asia.
1971, Paul Wheatley, The Pivot of the Four Quarters: A Preliminary Enquiry Into the Origins and Character of the Ancient Chinese City, Chicago: Aldine Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 128The Chinese Government has become deeply concerned for the conservation of its extensive lössic soils in the west, the product of millennia of airborne transport of dust and soil particles from arid inner-Asian plateaux and basins.
1993, Kenneth Hare, Laban Ogallo, Climate Variations, Drought and Desertification, World Meteorological Organization, →ISBN, page 15
Origin
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