löss

See also: loss, los, loess, løss, and lœss

English

Noun

löss (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of loess.
   • 1881, James Geikie, Prehistoric Europe: A Geological Sketch, London: Edward Stanford, […], page 147:

     All those tracts of löss which occur within the valleys proper come under the designation of valley-löss, while the term “hill-löss” is applied to those masses which are less closely connected with the valleys, and sometimes extend over plateaux and hilly ground between separate drainage-areas.

   • 1910, Frank Leverett, Comparison of North American and European Glacial Deposits, Berlin: Gebrüder Borntraeger, page 301:

     Among the mountains of middle Germany, and along the north border, there have been found two distinct deposits of löss separated by a weathered zone.

   • 2023, Daniele L. R. Marini, “Chinese Philosophical and Mathematical Thought”, in Imago Cosmi: The Vision of the Cosmos and the History of Astronomical Machines (Astronomers’ Universe), Springer Nature, →ISBN, footnote 2, page 321:

     In northern China, the Löss Plateau dates back at least two million years and consists of alternating layers of löss and soil.

Swedish

Noun

löss

1. indefinite plural of lus
2. indefinite genitive plural of lus

Anagrams

• söls