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

China's Loess Plateau was formed by wind alternately depositing dust or removing dust over the last 2.6 million years. The new study is the first to explain how the steep-fronted plateau formed: wind ...

The loess deposits of the Mississippi Valley area are widespread and have been extensively studied. In the upper valley they have definite stratigraphic relationships to the drift sheets. From these ...

Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society, Vol. 40, No. 3/4 (December, 1924), pp. 191-196 (7 pages) ...

To reconstruct how the global climate and topography of the Earth's surface have developed over millions of years, deposits of eroded land sediment transported by rivers to ocean depths are often used ...

China's Loess Plateau was formed by wind alternately depositing dust or removing dust over the last 2.6 million years, according to a new report from University of Arizona geoscientists. The study is ...