Standing on a Loess Plateau Ridge (IMAGE)

University of Arizona

Standing on a Loess Plateau Ridge

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Geoscientist Fulong Cai stands on a linear ridge on top of China's Loess Plateau and looks across a river valley at another of the plateau's linear ridges. The high hills in the far background are on the edge of the plateau, which drops about 1,300 feet (400 meters) to the Mu Us Desert to the northwest.

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Paul Kapp/ University of Arizona Department of Geosciences

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