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    The Loess Plateau (simplified Chinese: 黄土高原; traditional Chinese: 黃土高原; pinyin: Huángtǔ Gāoyuán), also known as the Huangtu Plateau, is a plateau that...
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    the agricultural south (or "lower Ordos", i.e. northern part of the Loess Plateau). The north Ordos consists mainly of the arid Ordos Desert (subdivided...
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  • Highlands) 461 Lusatian Plateau (west) 460 Dresden Basin 462 Großenhain Pflege 463 Central Saxon Loess Upland North Saxon Plateau and Upland 464 Oschatz...
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    ice dam and swept across eastern Washington and down the Columbia River Plateau during the Pleistocene epoch. The last of the cataclysmic floods occurred...
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    yaodong—artificial loess caves—on high cliffs in the Loess Plateau. Loess is the silty soil, deposited on the plateau by windstorms over ages. The soft loess clay is...
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    Ordos Desert (redirect from Ordos plateau)
    south. Wedged between the arable Hetao region to the north and the Loess Plateau to the south, the soil of the Ordos Desert is mostly a mixture of dry...
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    of Northeast China. Between the Qinling and the Inner Mongolian Plateau is Loess Plateau, the largest of its kind in the world, covering 650,000 km2 (250...
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    word Gobi, used to refer to all of the waterless regions in the Mongolian Plateau, while in Chinese Gobi is used to refer to rocky, semi-deserts such as...
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  • Island Farallon de Medinilla Farallon de Pajaros Guguan Maug Islands Pagan Sarigan Rota Saipan Tinian Regions of Ohio include: Allegheny Plateau Appalachian...
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  • and the melody was derived from a local peasant love song from the Loess Plateau entitled "Bai Ma Diao" 《白马调》 (White Horse Tune), also known as "Zhima...
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