Word: loess
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would be interesting to compare this man of universal interests to another man of only slightly loess universal genius Goethe. Here also was one who beside being one of the greatest if not the supreme poet of one era, was a scientist of note, and the prime minister of a principality. Indeed there seems o be a similarity between these two men of which not the least evidence is in the sincere admiration of the poet for the painter...
...been conducting a series of experiments on the longevity of seeds. The greatest record so far established has been with seeds of the lotus (Nelumbo nucifera). These seeds were taken from the dried-up bed of a lake in Manchuria. The lake-bed had been covered with loess, seolian deposits of dust from the Gobi Desert. The depth and stratification of the deposit enabled a rough calculation of the age of the seeds to be made. The minimum age was set at 120 years and the probable age between 200 and 400 years. The seeds were germinated and the plants...
...Define the following terms: Loess, rain-shadow, equinox, cyclone, dry-farming, phylloxera, water table, solstice, Gregorian calendar...