loess
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- n a fine-grained unstratified accumulation of clay and silt deposited by the wind
- Here was a poverty-stricken community tucked away in a steep mountain valley in Shanxi province with no known resources other than the drought-prone loess soil piled up on eight .
- Yenan's loess cave dwellings were rapidly emptying.
- Last week, another expedition quietly took off from a hard-packed loess runway at Lanchow to make the first recorded flight directly over the Amne Machins.