Re: CULT: Soil types.
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- Subject: Re: CULT: Soil types.
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- Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 17:51:47 -0600
From: "Jeff and Carolyn Walters" <cwalters@digitalpla.net>
> From: Jan Clark
> Please explain - what is loess?
Jan,
Loess (from the German loss - there should be an umlaut on the "o", but as
Arnold mentioned the other day, our keyboards are not so equipped - the
word means "loose") is a term applied to a type of fine-grained, yellowish
brown, extremely fertile soil deposited by the wind. Deposits, sometimes up
to several hundred feet deep occur in various areas of North America,
Europe, and Asia derived from the vast and persistent dust storms that
occurred near the margins of the Pleistocene glaciers. Probably something
that is not so often encountered in the southern continents where massive
glaciation did not occur.
My dictionary gives the English pronunciation as LOW-iss, like the feminine
name.
Jeff Walters in northern Utah (USDA Zone 4, Sunset Zone 2)
cwalters@digitalpla.net
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