Abstract
Dust whipped up and deposited by wind forms sheets of loess, which drape over the land. These loess deposits and the soils formed within them yield insights into past climatic and environmental change.
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Lowe, D. J., Tonkin, P. J., Palmer, J. G., Lanigan, K. M., & Palmer, A. S. (2015). Dusty horizons. In I. J. Graham (Ed.), A Continent on the Move: New Zealand Geoscience Revealed, Second Edition (Second, Vol. 141, pp. 286–289). Lower Hutt: Geoscience Society of New Zealand with GNS Science.
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2015
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Geoscience Society of New Zealand with GNS Science
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© 2015 Geoscience Society of New Zealand. Used with permission.