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✍ Scribed by S. M. Macgill

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1989
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 220 KB
• Volume: 14
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0360-1269
• DOI: 10.1002/esp.3290140512

✦ 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. Hahn describes the chronology of the loess visible in the well-known outcrop at Paks on the Danube. The papers on loess and fluvial deposits in Southern Netherland (profile Maastricht-Belvedere: J. Vanderberghe, W. Roebroeks, T. van Kolfschoten, H. Miicher, T. Meijer), on a eolian covers on Spitsbergen (B. van Vliet-Lanoe, A. Hequette), and on loess of Northern Italy (M. Cremaschi) all have regional significance. The last paper is of special importance, since the 1988 meeting of the INQUA Commission on Loess is to take place in Italy.

Two papers concern the microgranulometric investigations of loess (M. Levant, R. Authere, J. P. Dupont, B. Hallegoueti, D. Robbe) and the use of thermoluminescence dating in Normandy loess stratigraphy (S. Balescu). The last paper of the first part presents the results of multivariance analysis of mollusc assemblages