stackyFACTSLoess is a formal geological term for massive deposits of wind-blown silt and clay. Over thousands of years, relentless winds can pick up fine dust from deserts and glacier plains, carrying it hundreds of miles to form thick, blanket-like layers of soil somewhere else. It is literally just the planet failing to sweep up its own dust.
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