loess

Those nutrients come from organic matter and underlying loess.

Benches cut out of the loess were found in both kitchen and sleeping-room.

When the loess soil was of fair depth cultivation may have gone on for many years without fertilizers of any sort.

They are situated by preference on the loess terraces of the streams and rivers, near enough to the water for boat communication.

They were a peaceful folk settling by preference, though not exclusively, in the loess districts, as at Grosgartach.

It is now generally agreed that all typical loess is wind blown.