Dusty horizons
Citation
Export citationLowe, 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.
Permanent Research Commons link: https://hdl.handle.net/10289/10151
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.
Date
2008Type
Publisher
Geological Society of New Zealand in association with GNS Science
Rights
© 2008 Geoscience Society of New Zealand. Used with permission.