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What two characteristics indicate that loess is deposited by wind?
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What is loess made of?
Loess is deposited by wind.
How do loess form and why is it important?
Loess forms by wind. It is thought that loess, a kind of silt or clay, is formed from deposits of wind-blown dust.
What features result from deposition by wind?
Wind erosion and deposition may form sand dunes and loess deposits.
What landforms does wind form?
wind carved rocky outcrops (I think you americans call them Buttes). Here in NZ wind creates rolling hills from loess (wind blown dust over millenia)
Name the soil which is transported by winds?
Loess could be considered a windblown soil.
What is loess deposits?
Loess is deposited by wind.
What is loess made of?
Loess is deposited by wind.
What is soil deposited by wind kwown as?
that would be know as loess: soil believed to be mainly deposited by wind
Is a loess deposit is a fine wind-deposited sediment?
yes
Angular silt-size particles deposited by wind?
loess.
Fine particles of clay and silt deposited by wind?
Loess
What is sediment deposited by wind in layers called?
loess/dunes or aeolian deposits
What is loess made mainly of?
It is a fine-grained unstratified accumulation of clay and silt deposited by the wind
Particles of clay and silt eroded and deposited by the wind are called .?
Either Aeolian deposits, or Loess.
Particles of clay and silt eroded and deposited by the wind are called?
Either Aeolian deposits, or Loess.
What is a deposite of fertile windblown soil called?
loess: fertile, yellow-gray soil deposited by wind and water
Loess is sediment made up of fine particles of silt that have been deposited far from their source by?
Wind
