loess

• Posted on: January 16, 2009 7: 02 AM, by Jon Jenkin's use of a ridiculous sixth-degree poynomial fit to temperatures to argue that they were steeply trending down, I suggested that local regression (loess) was a much better method for showing trends. —  Deltoid
• Together with previously reported U-series dating of speleothem calcite and palaeomagnetic stratigraphy, as well as sedimentological considerations, these layers may be further correlated to S6-S7 in Chinese loess stratigraphy or marine isotope stages (MIS) 17-19, in the range of ∼ 0.68 to 0.78 —  Naturejobs - All Jobs
• Firstly we have the loess or firm sand, which can be cultivated; and secondly the disintegrated desert sand, which forms itself into heaps and causes sandstorms when the wind is high The mountains diminish in height the farther north one goes. —  Southern Arabia
• "Newer loess," either of Third Interglacial or of Postglacial times. —  The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told
• The Quaternary era is represented by the typical loess, which covers most of the Danubian plain; to its later epochs belong the alluvial deposits of the riparian districts with remains of the Ursus_, Equus_, &c.;, found in bone-caverns. —  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"

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