löss

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See also: loss, los, loess, løss, and lœss

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Noun

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löss (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of loess.
    • 1881, James Geikie, Prehistoric Europe: A Geological Sketch, London: Edward Stanford, [], page 147:
      All those tracts of löss which occur within the valleys proper come under the designation of valley-löss, while the term “hill-löss” is applied to those masses which are less closely connected with the valleys, and sometimes extend over plateaux and hilly ground between separate drainage-areas.
    • 1910, Frank Leverett, Comparison of North American and European Glacial Deposits, Berlin: Gebrüder Borntraeger, page 301:
      Among the mountains of middle Germany, and along the north border, there have been found two distinct deposits of löss separated by a weathered zone.
    • 2023, Daniele L. R. Marini, “Chinese Philosophical and Mathematical Thought”, in Imago Cosmi: The Vision of the Cosmos and the History of Astronomical Machines (Astronomers’ Universe), Springer Nature, →ISBN, footnote 2, page 321:
      In northern China, the Löss Plateau dates back at least two million years and consists of alternating layers of löss and soil.

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löss

  1. indefinite plural of lus
  2. indefinite genitive plural of lus

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