Loess deposits are extensive, wind-blown silt accumulations that form some of the most continuous terrestrial archives of Quaternary climate change. These sediments, often interbedded with palaeosols, ...

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 ...

XIAN, China, Sept. 1 (UPI) --New research suggests China's Loess Plateau, the largest dust deposit in the world, was formed by the winds blowing across the Mu Us Desert -- like a leaf blower piles ...

Millet has been an important crop in East Asia for much of the Holocene, a period beginning about 11,700 years ago. To better ...

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 ...