Salts are compounds formed when positively charged cations such as sodium (Na⁺), calcium (Ca²⁺), magnesium (Mg²⁺) and potassium (K⁺) combine with negatively ...

Fine silt on the Chinese Loess Plateau may actually have come from due west, not the northwest, which would change conventional thinking about wind patterns over the last 2.6 million years. Geologists ...

Loess is a very fine-grained sediment with just some traces of larger sand grains. Loess forms many hundreds of feet thick, very homogenous, deposits, covering almost ten percent of Earth’s surface.

Under SILT’s vision, the former Driscoll acres would revert to the kind of farm Joe’s grandpa and dad had, the kind he grew up on with barnyard animals, vegetables and a more diverse array of crops ...

An aerial view of the Xindiangou Water and Soil Conservation Demonstration Park in Suide, Shaanxi province, on Tuesday. [Photo by Li Kai/for China Daily] In the rugged terrain of the Loess Plateau in ...

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 ...

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 ...

A glacier that moved south from Canada about 13,000 years ago ground to a halt across northern Rock County. As the mile-thick slab of ice melted, sand and gravel washed onto the southern plain now ...