"löss" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1881, James Geikie, Prehistoric Europe: A Geological Sketch, London: Edward Stanford, […], page 147",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1910, Frank Leverett, Comparison of North American and European Glacial Deposits, Berlin: Gebrüder Borntraeger, page 301",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "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, footnote 2, page 321",
          "text": "In northern China, the Löss Plateau dates back at least two million years and consists of alternating layers of löss and soil.",
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          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "In northern China, the Löss Plateau dates back at least two million years and consists of alternating layers of löss and soil.",
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