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Document Type
Research
Abstract
Some years ago in an article entitled "The Loess and Its Fossils," the writer advanced certain opinions the modification of which seems to be called for by subsequent investigation and thought. In that paper it was shown, principally from a study of the fossils, that the theory of the lacustrine origin of the loess, held with very few exceptions by American writers, is untenable, and that the origin of the loess in violent fluviatile floods, also sometimes suggested, is equally improbable, and the theory was there offered that the deposit was formed in ponds and lakes similar to those which were formerly abundant in northern Iowa, and by quiet overflows of the sluggish prairie streams.
Publication Date
1895
Journal Title
Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Sciences
Volume
3
Issue
1
First Page
82
Last Page
89
Copyright
©1895 Iowa Academy of Science, Inc.
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Shimek, B.
(1895)
"A Theory of the Loess,"
Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science, 3(1), 82-89.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/pias/vol3/iss1/24