Loess and periglacial phenomena, symposium of the inqua commission on loess: Lithology, genesis and geotechnic definitions and IGU commission for periglacial studies: Field and laboratory experimentation. Normandy-Jersey-Brittany, Caen, August 1986, edited by Márton Pécsi and Hugh M. French. distributors: Kultura, Hungarian foreign trading co. P.O.B. 149 1389 Budapest, Hungary. No. of pages: 311
✍ Scribed by Józef Edward Mojski
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1989
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 109 KB
- Volume
- 14
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0360-1269
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✦ Synopsis
The collection of 21 papers presented at the symposium at Caen is a recent expression of achievements in loess and periglacial phenomena investigations. The book consists of two parts. Part I contains 10 papers, concerning the lithology, origin, and geotechnical properties of loess, written by authors from West Europe, Hungary, and China. These are papers on general loess problems: M. Pecsi writes Chinese loess in the light of the 1985 INQUA Commission on Loess Symposium in China, and Liu Tung-sheng, Guo Xu-dong, and Dong Guang-rong consider periglacial phenomena in Chinese loess. New data for grain-size and mineral distribution of older Hungarian loess are given by E. Pecsi-Donath, while Gy