What's the difference between dune and loess?

Dune


Definition:

  • (n.) A low hill of drifting sand usually formed on the coats, but often carried far inland by the prevailing winds.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We have developed the DUNE (Diagnostic Understanding of Natural Events) system architecture that organizes the knowledge around processing structures.
  • (2) Israeli media reports said the rocket came down near an amusement park in sand dunes on the edge of the city.
  • (3) I will sometimes make my way there by bicycle and spend the night sleeping on dunes under the stars.
  • (4) At Pelican Island, a 2.5 mile strip in the Barataria Bay, crews used 2.5m cubic yards of sand and silt mined from the Gulf of Mexico to build dunes and marshes, and rolled out protective fences around newly planted grasses.
  • (5) Enjoy riding through the natural beauty of pine forests and open heathland, before taking the Sand Worm (a tractor-trailer ride) across vast sand dunes to the colliding waves of the North and Baltic seas.
  • (6) To our right, four miles of wide clean beach, fringed by bumpy low sand dunes sprouted here and there with couch grass, flowering creepers and low bushes.
  • (7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Donald Trump on the sand dunes of the Menie estate.
  • (8) In this paper, we discuss the general specifications for a program that can aid psychiatric diagnoses, and then describe DUNE and its capabilities.
  • (9) The region boasts some of the world's highest dunes, with gazelles among the wildlife.
  • (10) Open 5 April- 30 September, camping from €18.20 a night for two, cabins from €51 a night for five Camping Le Pin Sec, Naujac-sur-Mer, near Bordeaux Amid pine forests and dunes just 50 metres from the sea, is a pop-up camp where surfers can stay in tipis with beds, carpets and electricity.
  • (11) It is one of the most beautiful beaches in Brazil, and backed by Atlantic rainforest, with dunes, sandbanks, a lake and rocky coastline.
  • (12) In between come the honky-tonk towns of Texas, the cactus-studded desert of New Mexico and Arizona, and the dunes and mountain passes of California.
  • (13) For example, dune fires broke out in the coastal parts of the Netherlands at the start of May .
  • (14) The path runs through a wild and protected area of dunes, woodland and heathlands with views of the islands in the Gulf of Morbihan.
  • (15) There is something of the sea cave and the sand dune about them.
  • (16) I was with a group of friends in the Namib desert, which has the largest sand dune in the world.
  • (17) The tombs nestle in the dunes below the Red Pyramid, considered the pharaohs' first successful attempt at a smooth-sided structure.
  • (18) The planning inspectors ruled that the damage to the dunes was outweighed by the resort's substantial value to the economy - a judgment challenged by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.
  • (19) River water after dune infiltration or pure dune water, collected in closed systems, as well as aerobic or anaerobic groundwater, were usually free of Aeromonas in 100 ml.
  • (20) Oregon Dunes does a great job of keeping the quieter foot-traffic-only areas separate from the motorised off-highway vehicle areas.

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.

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