(n.) Deposits of earth, sand, gravel, and other transported matter, made by rivers, floods, or other causes, upon land not permanently submerged beneath the waters of lakes or seas.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, Corbicula from several tributaries draining alluvium derived from the Sierra Nevada had lower As concentrations than would be predicted by the relation developed for perennial flow sites of the San Joaquin River.
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.