"Loess" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... thickness. It has no stratification, but tends to cleave vertically, and is traversed in every direction by sudden crevices, almost glacier-like, narrow, with vertical walls of great depth, and infinite ramification. Smooth as the loess basin looks in a bird's-eye view, it is thus one of the most impracticable countries conceivable for military movements, and secures extraordinary value to fortresses in well-chosen sites, such as that of Tung-kwan mentioned in Note 2 ...
— The Travels of Marco Polo, Volume 2 • Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa
... thickness, must exercise great pressure on the bed over which it travels. We see this from the striae and grooves on the solid rocks, and the fine mud which is carried down by glacial streams. The deposit of glacial rivers, the "loess" of the Rhine itself, is mainly the result of this ice-waste, and that is why it is so fine, so impalpable. That glaciers do deepen their beds ...
— The Beauties of Nature - and the Wonders of the World We Live In • Sir John Lubbock |
