Age of Loess on Long Island

Loess is unconsolidated, wind deposited sediment composed largely of silt-sized particles with the modal diameter between 15-50 µm. Loess is very homogeneous and shows little or no stratification. Loess deposits on Long Island range from a few centimeters to several meters in thickness. Provenance o...

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Main Authors: Vesna Kundić, Gilbert N. Hanson, Daniel M. Davis
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
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Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.511.7659
http://www.geo.sunysb.edu/lig/Conferences/abstracts-03/kundic.pdf