(a.) Of or pertaining to Aeolia or Aeolis, in Asia Minor, colonized by the Greeks, or to its inhabitants; aeolic; as, the Aeolian dialect.
(a.) Pertaining to Aeolus, the mythic god of the winds; pertaining to, or produced by, the wind; aerial.
Example Sentences:
(1) The two cultivated sites have been eroded by aeolian processes and tillage practices.
(2) The main known sources of pollutants are vehicle exhaust and aeolian processes on stripped soils.
(3) His Sonata for Oboe and Clarinet, inspired by a Kurt Schwitters poem, was heard at the Aeolian Hall in London, while his Sonatina for Piano had been performed in New York.
(4) The author describes the evolution of the criteria for sampling the "respirable" dust fraction and the contribution to research in this field made by the group of industrial hygienists of Milan, under the leadership of Prof. Zurlo, in particular with the development of the aeolian classifier.
Loess
Definition:
(n.) A quaternary deposit, usually consisting of a fine yellowish earth, on the banks of the Rhine and other large rivers.
Example Sentences:
(1) Feeding experimental animals with fodder containing power plant ashes or loess dusts causes a change in the gastric juice reaction, thus resulting in a different assimilation of elements contained in the fodder.
(2) We compared the incidence of gastric dysplasia in three regions of China which have quite different geographical environments: the loess plateau of Wuwei area in the Gansu Province, the island of the Yangtze River in the Jiangsu Province of southern China, and the coastal area of the Liaoning Province in northern China.
(3) It was concluded that Hungarian rock-soil systems, especially the acid igneous rocks and the widely distributed young sediments (loess and sand formations) with most of the agricultural activity, are low in Se, and the mean serum Se level of the blood samples were also low.
(4) Loess Plateau watershed campaign The 2009 film, Lessons of the Loess Plateau, looked at the large-scale environmental restoration project undertaken by the Chinese government and the World Bank in the China’s northern region.
(5) The flora of the shell-limestone, keuper and loess areas contains much less Mn than that of those acid habitats.
(6) Calcium-cyanamide increased the CO2-production more in sandy than in loamy soil or German loess, which was also used for this experiment.
(7) These include thermophilic and mesophilic oak-forest communities on loess and communities of acid oak forests on gneiss.
(8) An analysis of the strontium isotopes in their tooth enamel showed these individuals had lived on food grown in " loess ", the most fertile and productive soil.
(9) Digramma is predominant in Carassius auratus auratus L. in reservoirs and lakes of 3 main water systems, Heilongjiang, Huang He (the Yellow River), and Chang Jiang (the Yangtze River), and in cultured cyprinids along the lower section of Huang He as well as in bodies of water on the Loess Plateau.