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‖ lehm Geol.|leːm| [Ger. = loam.] = loess.
1833Lyell Princ. Geol. III. 151 There is a remarkable alluvium filled with land-shells of recent species, which overspreads a great part of the valley of the Rhine, between Basle and Cologne... This deposit is provincially termed ‘Loess’, or, in Alsace, ‘Lehm’. 1876Page Adv. Text-Bk. Geol. xx. 405 The ‘loess’ or ‘lehm’ of the Rhine—a pulverulent yellowish, sandy loam. |