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Recent Examples of loess
The Rhône's predominantly granite soils versus Walla Walla's basalt bedrock, riverbed cobbles, and windblown loess.
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Paul Caputo,
Forbes.com,
30 June 2026
The death toll was so high partly because many people lived in cave dwellings carved into soft loess soil.
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Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
15 June 2026
Officials said the feature continued downward into the loess beneath the prehistoric site.
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Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
9 Feb. 2026
Many fatalities were linked to the collapse of yaodongs—homes carved into loess hillsides.
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Amanda Castro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 Oct. 2025
When blown by the wind, these sediments are referred to as loess.
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Joseph V Micallef,
Forbes,
2 Sep. 2021
When the tunnel was first dug, the ice held the loess in place.
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Madeline Ostrander,
Smithsonian Magazine,
4 May 2020
Paul Caputo,
Forbes.com,
30 June 2026
The death toll was so high partly because many people lived in cave dwellings carved into soft loess soil.
—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
15 June 2026
Officials said the feature continued downward into the loess beneath the prehistoric site.
—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
9 Feb. 2026
Many fatalities were linked to the collapse of yaodongs—homes carved into loess hillsides.
—
Amanda Castro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 Oct. 2025
When blown by the wind, these sediments are referred to as loess.
—
Joseph V Micallef,
Forbes,
2 Sep. 2021
When the tunnel was first dug, the ice held the loess in place.
—
Madeline Ostrander,
Smithsonian Magazine,
4 May 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for loess
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What used to be open water was heading towards alluvium, and oblivion.
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At some point, alluvium buried the entire tusk, possibly from major storm flooding.
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At Walhalla Glades, the carbon instead sat within silicate-rich sediment.
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The results showed that even after weeks of biological growth and sediment buildup, which heavily obscured the test targets, the system successfully identified every single weapon.
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The valley floor is silt and loess left by the ice-age Missoula Floods, the glacial-lake megafloods that repeatedly drowned the region.
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The Hansen Dam Aquatic Center pool was constructed in 1999 in a $15-million project to replace a previous pool in the area that was filled with silt.
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Freshman Ben Smith became the first NCAA outdoor champion for Oregon in the shot put since Dean Crouser (1982) with a marl of 69-0 1/2.
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Its striking blue-green hues and clarity—allowing visibility of 20 to 30 feet—are due to minimal organic runoff and calcium-rich marl sediment from its glacial origins.
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Much of the valley sits over an ancient riverbed, with the hillsides composed of fractured sandstone and clay.
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Its beige/clay color is also an easy one to pair with all styles of outfits.
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Rather, our solar system is a celestial shooting gallery, chock-full of flying projectiles—not just meteoroids but larger bodies, such as comets, asteroids, and other cosmic detritus—and Earth is right in the firing line.
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Want to take a dip but daunted by the scum and detritus on your pool's walls, floors, and surfaces?
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Doing this reportedly required understanding the molecular structure of mud.
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The pigs that would soon enough become lunch lazed in the compost-pile mud in front of a five-star-hotel-worthy view of the Cretan Sea.
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The photographer Richard Avedon entertained a lot of interest in his home in Montauk, a modest cedar-shingle house sitting on eight acres of land overlooking the Atlantic Ocean.
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Completed in the late 1930s—and positioned as a renovation or development project—the two-story white stucco and shingle-roof structure sits behind gates and hedges on over an acre at the iconic corner of Beverly Drive and Sunset Boulevard, steps from the Beverly Hills Hotel.
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“Loess.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/loess. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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