loess
Kelime Anlamı :

1. killi ve kumlu balçık.
2. lös.
3. kurumuş nehir yataklarında bulunan ve rüzgârın getirdiği zannedilen çok verimli sarımtırak kül rengi ince toprak.
4. i., jeol. lös.
5. kül rengi toprak.
Tanımlar :
1. A buff to gray windblown deposit of fine-grained, calcareous silt or clay.
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
1. any sediment, dominated by silt, of eolian (wind-blown) origin.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
1. A quaternary deposit, usually consisting of a fine yellowish earth, on the banks of the rhine and other large rivers.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
1. in geology, originally, a certain loamy deposit in the valley of the rhine; now, by extension, any detrital accumulation more or less resembling the original loess occurring in other parts of the world.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
1. a fine-grained unstratified accumulation of clay and silt deposited by the wind
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.