Citations:Loess Plateau

English citations of Loess Plateau

• 1984, Vaclav Smil, The Bad Earth: Environmental Degradation in China‎^[1], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 17:

  Devastated forests in some provinces and autonomous regions in that area are twice the size of afforested land (Xinhua, June 10, 1979, JPRS 73796), and in some counties nine times; where millions of trees are to be planted before 1985 as a “strategic measure” to control erosion and desertification, animal or tractor-drawn carts can be seen on the roads, loaded with indiscriminately and illegally cut trunks, branches, and roots (Jiang 1979), and on the already heavily eroded Loess Plateau and in the Wei He (Wei River) valley unscrupulous lumbering has not only not ceased, but is actually increasing in some places.

• 1993, Dazhong Wen, “Soil erosion and conservation in China”, in David Pimentel, editor, World Soil Erosion and Conservation‎^[2], Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 64:

  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).

• 1994, Zhao Songqiao, Geography of China‎^[3], John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 48:

  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.

• 2012 November 5, Ruth Morris, “Every drop counts”, in Deutsche Welle‎^[4], archived from the original on November 26, 2015‎^[5]:

  In her home on the parched Loess Plateau, Niu Xiaomei washes tomatoes in a shallow basin of water. Her kitchen has a traditional, tiled stove with two vats for cooking - but no water tap.
  "After using the water to wash vegetables, we pour the water into a basin, for the animals," she says, as she pours the used water into bowl on the floor. It's one of many recycling techniques she uses to stretch her water supply as far as possible. On the Loess Plateau, every drop of water is precious.

• 2014 October 10, “Landslide in northwest China kills 19 road workers”, in AP News‎^[6], archived from the original on 01 June 2022‎^[7]:

  Yan’an is part of the Loess Pateau, known for its loose, sandy soil deposited by wind.