Map Showing Loess Plateau (IMAGE)

University of Arizona

Map Showing Loess Plateau

Caption

This map shows the location of China's Loess Plateau in relationship to the Mu Us Desert, the Gobi Desert and the city of Beijing.

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Paul Kapp/ University of Arizona Department of Geosciences

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This photo may be used only to illustrate a story about the research described in the release, How Wind Sculpted Earth's Largest Dust Deposit. Photo credit must be included.

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