Loess Plateau

English

Etymology

From loess +‎ plateau. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “When/how did this wording originate?”)

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Proper noun

Loess Plateau (uncountable)

1. A plateau that covers an area of some 640,000 km² in the upper and middle reaches of China's Yellow River.
   • 1993, Dazhong Wen, “Soil erosion and conservation in China”, in David Pimentel, editor, World Soil Erosion and Conservation‎^[1], 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^[2], 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.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Loess Plateau.

Translations

plateau that covers an area in China's Yellow River

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 黃土高原／黄土高原 (zh) (huángtǔ gāoyuán)

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• Finnish: Kiinan lössiylänkö
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• Russian: Лёссовое плато́ n (Ljóssovoje plató), Лёссовая равни́на f (Ljóssovaja ravnína)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Loess Plateau”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[3], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1767, column 1