Associations to the word «Loess»
Noun
- Ice
- Indicator
- Fertility
- Foothill
- Shale
- Particle
- Mantle
- Landscape
- Blanket
- Sahara
- Slope
- Farmland
- Greenland
- Mississippi
- Ridge
- Nebraska
- Shan
- Grain
- Valley
- Hill
- Flood
- Fauna
- Chronology
- Sequence
- Latitude
- Drift
- Vineyard
- Mineral
- Continental
- Cave
- Calcium
- Delta
- Circulation
- Antarctica
- Cycle
- Vegetation
- Earthquake
- Margin
- Dug
- Yellow
- Canyon
- Material
- Granite
- Cliff
- Region
- Zone
- Deep
- River
- Slate
- Kilometer
- Core
- Mud
- Reconstruction
- Boulder
- Belt
- Meter
- Mound
- Hemisphere
- Sheet
Adjective
Wiktionary
LOESS, noun. (geology) Any sediment, dominated by silt, of eolian (wind-blown) origin.
LOESS PLATEAU, proper noun. A plateau that covers an area of some 640,000 km² in the upper and middle reaches of China's Yellow River.
Dictionary definition
LOESS, noun. A fine-grained unstratified accumulation of clay and silt deposited by the wind.
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