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LONGITUDE
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Major dust
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Figure 16.4
Global loess deposits. Note the focus around 40° latitude north and south, between the subtropical high pressure
belt and Pleistocene ice limits.
Source: After Livingstone and Warren (1996)
Plate 16.2
Thick loess overlying late Tertiary clays (lower red beds) and thick palaesols (dark band) in the middle Huang (Yellow
River) basin, China.
Photo: Mike Fullen
