Re: Was ist loess?

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HAROLD SILVERSTEIN (SANS@ix.netcom.com) wrote:
: Who can tell me about loess? How much of it is there?
: Where did it come from?

: Thanks, Marita

Loess is a wind blown sedimentary deposit of silt-sized material.
The material can have various sources. In the central US there are
deposits that consist of wind-blown glacial deposits. In Hawaii we have
wind-blown volcanic ash.

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