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New European loess map

A new map showing the distribution of loess sediments in Europe has been published for the first time in 75 years, in digital format. With this map, Dagmar Haase, a geographer at the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research, has completed the work of various researchers who had begun as far back as the 1970s and 80s to revise the last comprehensive inventory produced in 1932.

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