Discover the history and ecology of Iowa's Loess Hills. Discover the history and ecology of Iowa's Loess Hills. Road Trip Iowa is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on ...

What do glaciers and the Sahara Desert have in common? Both are sources of silt-size particles that interact with wind, sand, and vegetation to form loess deposits. Deflation, the lifting and removal ...

Loess deposits, composed predominantly of wind‐blown silt, together with their intercalated palaeosol sequences, constitute one of the most significant terrestrial archives for reconstructing ...

A geologist from The University of Texas at Arlington is investigating the origin of loess, a sediment formed by the accumulation of wind-blown dust, in the western United States. The National Science ...

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 ...