Dusty horizons

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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, A. S., & Palmer, J. G. (2008). Dusty horizons. In I. J. Graham (Ed.), A Continent on the Move: New Zealand Geoscience into the 21st Century (pp. 270–273). Geological Society of New Zealand in association with GNS Science.

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Geological Society of New Zealand in association with GNS Science

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