The thickest known deposit of ‘Loess’ on the ‘Loess plateau’ is found in ................ .
China
Loess is a fine, yellowish, wind-blown silt that accumulates downwind of deserts and glacial outwash plains.
The Loess Plateau of north-central China, in the middle basin of the Huang He (Yellow River), holds the thickest known loess deposits in the world, locally exceeding 300 metres.
The dust was carried by north-westerly winds from the Gobi and other inland deserts and settled over hundreds of thousands of years, giving the river its yellow silt load.
Loess also occurs in the Mississippi basin of the U.S.A., but those deposits are much thinner, while Mongolia and Afghanistan are mainly source or desert areas rather than thick loess plateaus.
Hence, China.
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