LOESS Traditional Cache
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A cache placed at a dead end on the right away near a loess bluff. Here is a chance to look at loess closeup.
Loess is the yellow dirt that forms the bluffs along the Missouri River.
Among the classifications of soil types, loess (pronounced lös, from the German Löß, and ultimately from Swiss German lösch, loose; often pronounced in U.S. English common usage as luss or lurse) is a fine, silty, windblown (eolian) type of unconsolidated deposit; sometimes the term refers to the soil derived from it. It is derived from glacial deposits, where glacial activity has ground rocks very fine (rock flour). After drying, these deposits are highly susceptible to wind erosion, and downwind deposits may become very deep, even a hundred metres or more, as in areas of China and the midwestern United States. Loess deposits are geologically unstable by nature, and will erode even without being disturbed by humans; even well-managed loess farmland can experience dramatic erosion of well over 25 tonnes per hectare per year.
This cache is an easy one to find and starts out with some trackable items. I have placed it on my birthday.
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