The simulation demonstrates how wind velocity and distance from a glacial outwash source control the thickness and grain-size distribution of an accumulating loess deposit, reproducing the characteristic downwind fining and thinning trend.
Adjust the wind velocity and outwash source grain-size sliders to see how silt is entrained, transported downwind, and deposited into layered loess, then inspect how the resulting deposit profile changes with distance.
Sliders for wind velocity, source grain size, and downwind distance
The Chinese Loess Plateau contains a continuous windblown sediment record stretching back more than two million years, preserving dozens of glacial-interglacial cycles in a single stacked sequence of loess and fossil soil layers.
The simulation demonstrates how wind velocity and distance from a glacial outwash source control the thickness and grain-size distribution of an accumulating loess deposit, reproducing the characteristic downwind fining and thinning trend.
The simulation demonstrates how wind velocity and distance from a glacial outwash source control the thickness and grain-size distribution of an accumulating loess deposit, reproducing the characteristic downwind fining and thinning trend.
Adjust the wind velocity and outwash source grain-size sliders to see how silt is entrained, transported downwind, and deposited into layered loess, then inspect how the resulting deposit profile changes with distance.
The Chinese Loess Plateau contains a continuous windblown sediment record stretching back more than two million years, preserving dozens of glacial-interglacial cycles in a single stacked sequence of loess and fossil soil layers.