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Loessfest ready to rock the metro With three bands and a variety of fun activities for the whole family, Loessfest is set for two weeks fun ...
The Quad-Cities band Loess Hills will open for country artist Tim McGraw for a 10-hour concert at Field of Dreams that has ...
Across the 168,000 square miles of the Loess Plateau, layers of wind-blown silt called loess alternate with heavier soils, now compressed into rock, called paleosols.
A new map showing the distribution of loess sediments in Europe has been published for the first time in 75 years, in digital format. With this map, Dagmar Haase, a geographer at the Helmholtz ...
The Loess (pronounced “less”) Hills rise like a miniature mountain range on the western border of Iowa, stretching for 200 miles from Sioux City to the southern border of the state.