Loess Soil Deposits

This is a classic example of the box ended gully and pinnate drainage pattern that develops in loess deposits. The box ends and cross section of the gullies is a result of vertical cementation channels within the deposit.

Base photo in low resolution with LINKED locations of high resolution 3D images (10s of kb)
Base photo in medium resolution to allow exploration of gray tone detail (100 of kb)
Three dimensional anaglyph photo at 1200 dpi (MBs JPEG file that will expand to 10s of MB)
Idealized illustrations of deposit (elevation, plan, and/or oblique view)
Photo of typical cross section
Example of typical quantitative characterization data

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