The co-author lists are roughly in proper historical order- at least for the first three lists. Part Three contains co-authors 21-30; we edge a bit further east; contact with Wroclaw is revived, the wonders of Vojvodina begin to be appreciated, we venture to Tashkent.
21. Nadira Mavlyanova. Uzbekistan to Nottingham. We pursue the 15 loess research targets set by G.A.Mavlyanov. NTU links up with the Seismological Institute in Tashkent. The great Tashkent earthquake destroyed an amazing number of loess buildings. Seismology Institute built at epicentre.
22. Ken O'Hara-Dhand. Standing in a quarry in Korshiv, in Ukraine. Admiring the loess, and noticing the sand-martins. The beginnings of the 'birds & loess' project. The properties of loess make it the ideal ground material for sand-martin nesting. Sand martins detect loess; sand martins indicate the presence of loess by living in it.
23. Zdzislaw Jary. ZJ was a student of Jerzy Cegla, and now carries a banner for Silesian loess. A series of essays in New Zealand Soil News, and adventures in Polish biobibliography. A shared appreciation of the S.Z.Rozycki book.
24. Slobodan Markovic. An extraordinary meeting in 1999, an adventure shared in Moscow, an acquaintance renewed in 2006. A dance around hydroconsolidation and loessification and fragipans and history- but always in the background the great cliffs of Stari Slankamen. A persistence with INQUA, a dawdling beside the Danube, a rumination at Ruma..
25. Sue McLaren. Birds again; ZJ proposed that bee-eaters were the birds to study; so bee-eaters in Europe, Africa, India and Australia were examined. The 'Heneberg Compromise' was invented and invoked. The bee-eater as environmental engineer was pursued worldwide. In Europe the relationship of bird to loess is explicit; in Australia the relationship is speculative- but where loess should be in Oz- there are bee eaters.
26. Mladen Jovanovic. History. We identify Karl Caesar von Leonhard 1824, Charles Lyell 1833, Heinrich Georg Bronn 1830, Samuel Hibbert 1832, Leonard Horner 1836 and recognise the beginnings of loess scholarship.
27. Tivadar Gaudenyi. The first publication of the word loess in English was possibly by Sam.Hibbert in his book on Eifel volcanos(sic). Hibbert published a map of part of the Eifel region; maybe the first mapping of loess?
28. Zorica Svircev. Cyan-bacteria; the role of bacteria in the formation of loess deposits. Loess on Mars and Titan and other distant places. We await definite recognition of loess on Mars; of course if there is no geological mechanism available to make loess material we will wait in vain.
29. Arya Assadi-Langroudi. Packing. Loess as a packing. Loess as a collapsible soil (ground). Is loess the only geological system where packing is of any consequence? Is the packing parameter only to be studied with respect to loess? The loess connection at UEL moves from Hugh Nugent to AAL.
30. Roger Fagg. Timaru; John Hardcastle. Timaru is important in the history of the study of loess. At Timaru in 1889 John Hardcastle formulated the basic concepts of loess stratigraphy. At Timaru JH invented scientific palaeoclimatology. And he had a firm appreciation of the action of glaciers in the formation of loess material and loess deposits.
21. Nadira Mavlyanova. Uzbekistan to Nottingham. We pursue the 15 loess research targets set by G.A.Mavlyanov. NTU links up with the Seismological Institute in Tashkent. The great Tashkent earthquake destroyed an amazing number of loess buildings. Seismology Institute built at epicentre.
22. Ken O'Hara-Dhand. Standing in a quarry in Korshiv, in Ukraine. Admiring the loess, and noticing the sand-martins. The beginnings of the 'birds & loess' project. The properties of loess make it the ideal ground material for sand-martin nesting. Sand martins detect loess; sand martins indicate the presence of loess by living in it.
23. Zdzislaw Jary. ZJ was a student of Jerzy Cegla, and now carries a banner for Silesian loess. A series of essays in New Zealand Soil News, and adventures in Polish biobibliography. A shared appreciation of the S.Z.Rozycki book.
24. Slobodan Markovic. An extraordinary meeting in 1999, an adventure shared in Moscow, an acquaintance renewed in 2006. A dance around hydroconsolidation and loessification and fragipans and history- but always in the background the great cliffs of Stari Slankamen. A persistence with INQUA, a dawdling beside the Danube, a rumination at Ruma..
25. Sue McLaren. Birds again; ZJ proposed that bee-eaters were the birds to study; so bee-eaters in Europe, Africa, India and Australia were examined. The 'Heneberg Compromise' was invented and invoked. The bee-eater as environmental engineer was pursued worldwide. In Europe the relationship of bird to loess is explicit; in Australia the relationship is speculative- but where loess should be in Oz- there are bee eaters.
26. Mladen Jovanovic. History. We identify Karl Caesar von Leonhard 1824, Charles Lyell 1833, Heinrich Georg Bronn 1830, Samuel Hibbert 1832, Leonard Horner 1836 and recognise the beginnings of loess scholarship.
27. Tivadar Gaudenyi. The first publication of the word loess in English was possibly by Sam.Hibbert in his book on Eifel volcanos(sic). Hibbert published a map of part of the Eifel region; maybe the first mapping of loess?
28. Zorica Svircev. Cyan-bacteria; the role of bacteria in the formation of loess deposits. Loess on Mars and Titan and other distant places. We await definite recognition of loess on Mars; of course if there is no geological mechanism available to make loess material we will wait in vain.
29. Arya Assadi-Langroudi. Packing. Loess as a packing. Loess as a collapsible soil (ground). Is loess the only geological system where packing is of any consequence? Is the packing parameter only to be studied with respect to loess? The loess connection at UEL moves from Hugh Nugent to AAL.
30. Roger Fagg. Timaru; John Hardcastle. Timaru is important in the history of the study of loess. At Timaru in 1889 John Hardcastle formulated the basic concepts of loess stratigraphy. At Timaru JH invented scientific palaeoclimatology. And he had a firm appreciation of the action of glaciers in the formation of loess material and loess deposits.
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