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Document Type
Research
Abstract
It is exceedingly unfortunate and disturbing that the loess deposits of our state should ever have been mixed up with the glacial tills, when, indeed, they have no more to do with glaciation than the bed-rock itself. Loess, being mainly wind-borne dust derived from Southwestern deserts, and a deposit being continuously laid down far and wide, inside and outside of the glaciated areas, throughout glacial, a swell as interglacial, times, is doubtless being deposited over our state as rapidly and as extensively as loess ever accumulates. It should not, therefore be associated, genetically or otherwise, with our glacial deposits; but be considered wholly apart.
Publication Date
1931
Journal Title
Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science
Volume
38
Issue
1
First Page
207
Last Page
207
Copyright
©1931 Iowa Academy of Science, Inc.
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Keyes, Charles
(1931)
"Larger Prospect of our Loess Mantle,"
Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science, 38(1), 207-207.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/pias/vol38/iss1/51