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  1. Loess - Wikipedia

    Loess is a periglacial or aeolian (windborne) sediment, defined as an accumulation of 20% or less of clay with a balance of roughly equal parts sand and silt (with a typical grain size from 20 to 50 …

  2. Loess | Wind-Deposited Sediment & Soil Formation | Britannica

    Loess, an unstratified, geologically recent deposit of silty or loamy material that is usually buff or yellowish brown in colour and is chiefly deposited by the wind.

  3. Loess stands for locally estimated scatterplot smoothing (lowess stands for locally weighted scatterplot smoothing) and is one of many non-parametric regression techniques, but arguably the most flexible.

  4. Loess - National Geographic Society

    Jul 3, 2024 · In some parts of the world, windblown dust and silt blanket the land. This layer of fine, mineral-rich material is called loess.

  5. WHAT IS LOESS? - backyardnature.net

    Air and water can't circulate easily in loess, which is a problem for things living in loess. However, loess is chemically nutrient rich, and when loess soil contains plenty of organic matter and is mixed with …

  6. How Is Loess Beneficial for Agriculture and Construction?

    Loess is a fine-grained, unstratified sediment deposited by the wind, primarily consisting of silt-sized particles. This material typically possesses a characteristic yellowish or buff color and is often loosely …

  7. LOESS Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster

    The meaning of LOESS is an unstratified usually buff to yellowish brown loamy deposit found in North America, Europe, and Asia and believed to be chiefly deposited by the wind.

  8. What is Loess? - Loess Hills Audubon Society

    What is Loess?  Loess (pronounced "luss") is a German word meaning "loose" and it is the name of a type of soil. Loess is a deposit of fine, yellowish-gray, clay-like sediment which can be found from …

  9. Local regression - Wikipedia

    LOESS is a multivariate smoother, able to handle spatial data with two (or more) predictor variables, and uses (by default) local quadratic fitting. Both LOWESS and LOESS are implemented in the S and R …

  10. Loess - Age, Origin, Deposits | Britannica

    The mineral constituents of loess (quartz and feldspar, for example) are reduced to minute particles by weathering action, principally in semiarid and arid regions.