Geol. [Ger. = LOAM.] = LOESS.
1833. Lyell, Princ. Geol., III. 151. There is a remarkable alluvium filled with land-shells of recent species, which overspreads a great part of the valley of the Rhine, between Basle and Cologne…. This deposit is provincially termed ‘Loess,’ or, in Alsace, ‘Lehm.’
1876. Page, Adv. Text-bk. Geol., xx. 405. The ‘loess’ or ‘lehm’ of the Rhine—a pulverulent yellowish, sandy loam.
