loess
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Gansu lies between the Tibetan and Loess plateaus and borders Mongolia.
From BBC • Dec. 20, 2023
They breached the bank at Huayuankou, a known avulsion hot spot where the river slackens as it emerges from the Loess Plateau and dumps its sediment.
From Science Magazine • May 13, 2021
Silt from these glaciers has piled up in mounds large enough to become their own landforms, here called the Loess Hills.
From New York Times • Jul. 29, 2019
On Iowa’s west coast, the muddy Missouri raged through the Loess hills and valleys and took entire towns with it – Pacific Junction, population 470, and Hamburg, population 1,187.
From The Guardian • May 30, 2019
On the Loess of the Rhine and the Danube, Journal of Science volume 7 1877 pages 67-90.
From The Naturalist in Nicaragua by Belt, Thomas
Vocabulary lists containing loess
Western Europe - Introductory
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East Asia - Middle School
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East Asia - High School
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