Loess Plateau
English
Etymology
From loess + plateau. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “When/how did this wording originate?”)
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Proper noun
- A plateau that covers an area of some 640,000 km² in the upper and middle reaches of China's Yellow River.
- 1993, Dazhong Wen, “Soil erosion and conservation in China”, in David Pimentel, editor, World Soil Erosion and Conservation, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 64:
- The Loess Plateau
China’s Loess Plateau is the most widely distributed loess area on earth. This loess is a deep deposit of paleosol, and the plateau is most systematically and completely developed for crops (Zhu Xianmo, 1986).
- 1994, Zhao Songqiao, Geography of China, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 48:
- First excavated in A.D. 1963 at Lantian (near Xi’an) on the warm temperate Loess Plateau, the Lantian people lived about 800,000 to 600,000 years before the present.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Loess Plateau.
Translations
plateau that covers an area in China's Yellow River
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Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Loess Plateau”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1767, column 1
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