Talk:Loess

message: About etymology: The term derives from the German word for "loose". Loess (Löß in German) is obviously not derived from German "lose" but from a distantly related Swiss German word lösch.  Source: Kluge, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache, 23rd ed., Berlin 1999 Kosebamse 06:29 13 Jun 2003 (UTC)
:The OED confirms this. Kokiri 17:22, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)
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message: The picture about a "loess reef" in Hungary actually shows a cliff of Late Miocene sediments deposited by the Lake Pannon, i.e. several million years older than loess. The cliffs are often called - erroneously - "loess walls" by journalists, tourists and others, but their material is a lacustrine sediment, so the picture should in fact be removed from the loess page.
The other remark: working in geology in Hungary, I have never heard anyone calling these cliffs "reefs", and I can't even guess what the original Hungarian word can have been that was translated as "reef". I think this expression needs a citation, but rather should be removed.
Lumasella (talk) 12:16, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. Thanks for the information. Wilson44691 (talk) 13:11, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Loess in Hungary - remarks 

message: I just need to know if there is a plural form for loess, is it loesss? Because that is what someone told me, and I am very dubious. --Michaelzeng7 (talk) 01:18, 25 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Seems wiktionary agrees with your friend - not sourced though. I don't know, but I'd prefer something like deposits of loess or occurrences of loess ... rather than such an awkward triple "s" construction. Vsmith (talk) 01:44, 25 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plural Form 

message: *Add an image of the global distribution of loess deposits. The one from USGS  is a good start in describing North American soil mechanics (and it's public domain), but there needs to be a far more integrative global map to improve this article. ~AH1 (discuss!) 03:48, 13 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  To do - image 

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