Discussion
Loess is a deposit laid down by
Answer: A
Correct answer: wind, as silt carried far from its source
Loess is wind-blown silt, characteristically derived from glacial outwash or from desert margins and carried hundreds of kilometres before settling. It is unstratified, remarkably uniform in grain size, and held together by a weak clay and carbonate bond that gives it the ability to stand in vertical faces - and that collapses when the deposit is wetted.
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