The surrounding countryside is a dry patchwork of millet and corn fields covered with the fine yellow silt found across the loess plateau , one of the most erosion-prone places on earth .
乡下是干涸斑驳的高粱玉米地,黄土茫茫,横亘黄土高原这是地球上最容易被冲蚀的地方之一。
Could there have been a really large dam that caused a deep lake in both zharu and the main valleys and is older than the loess deposits ?
这儿有可能有一个真正巨大的大坝,导致扎如和主峡谷之间的深湖,并且时间比黄土沉积物还久远吗?
Then something strange happened : the loess in the terraces wasn 't on top of crushed rock anymore - it was on top of very finely laminated clay-rich sediments .
然后一些很奇怪的事儿发生了:梯田里的黄土不再在碎岩石上-在非常完美层压的黏土丰富的沉积物上。
That work also used a novel statistical approach ( known as the loess method ) to analyse data , but he points out that its conclusions now appear even more incorrect than rival studies done by un agencies .