Loess Plateau en · PROPN
Pronunciation
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Etymology
From loess + plateau.
Meanings
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(uncountable) A plateau that covers an area of some 640,000 km² in the upper and middle reaches of China's Yellow River.
First excavated in A.D. 1963 at Lantian (near Xi’an) on the warm temperate Loess Plateau, the Lantian people lived about 800,000 to 600,000 years before the present.
1994, Zhao Songqiao, Geography of China, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 48:The Loess Plateau China’s Loess Plateau is the most widely distributed loess area on earth. This loess is a deep deposit of paleosol, and the plateau is most systematically and completely developed for crops (Zhu Xianmo, 1986).
1993, Dazhong Wen, “Soil erosion and conservation in China”, in David Pimentel, editor, World Soil Erosion and Conservation, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 64:
Translations (5)
ru Лёссовая равни́на (plateau that covers an area in China's Yellow River) · ru Лёссовое плато́ (plateau that covers an area in China's Yellow River) · pl Wyżyna Lessowa (plateau that covers an area in China's Yellow River) · fi Kiinan lössiylänkö (plateau that covers an area in China's Yellow River) · cmn 黃土高原 /黄土高原 (plateau that covers an area in China's Yellow River)