loess

windblown sediment
Thing soil_type Q22723
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loess

Summary

loess is a soil type[1]. loess ranks in the top 9% of soil_type entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (403 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • loess's image is recorded as LoessVicksburg.jpg[3].
  • loess's instance of is recorded as soil type[4].
  • loess's subclass of is recorded as sediment[5].
  • loess's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 00566105[6].
  • loess's Commons category is recorded as Loess[7].
  • loess's said to be the same as is recorded as Q12551515[8].
  • loess's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01khh8[9].
  • loess's Iconclass notation is recorded as 25D242[10].
  • loess's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[11].
  • loess's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12].
  • loess's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[13].
  • loess's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[14].
  • loess's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[15].
  • loess's described by source is recorded as The Encyclopedia Americana[16].
  • loess's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 4[17].
  • loess's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/loess[18].
  • loess's different from is recorded as Less[19].
  • loess's CosIng number is recorded as 35050[20].
  • loess's Quora topic ID is recorded as Loess[21].
  • loess's Cultureel Woordenboek ID is recorded as demografie-en-geografie-nl/loss[22].
  • loess's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as loess[23].
  • loess's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as loess-soils[24].
  • loess's PACTOLS thesaurus ID is recorded as pcrtSIsVZPQG1t[25].
  • loess's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as løss[26].
  • loess's Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine ID is recorded as 54411[27].

Why It Matters

loess ranks in the top 9% of soil_type entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (403 views/month).[2] loess has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] loess is known by 33 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
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  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . Quora. wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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