Part two contains more co-authors, numbers 11-20 of those agreeable people sharing title pages; from biobibliography to the geomorphology of the Shire, and serious topics like hydroconsolidation and slope stability.
11. Jewel Davin. Bibliographer. Jewel was the librarian at the Lower Hutt headquarters of the DSIR Soil Bureau in New Zealand. A great library- a bibliographic bonus; but DSIR delivered another bibliographic treasure- they published a series of 'Bibliographic Reports' which, since they were in effect in house journals, could be adapted to special requirements. BR28 and BR30 are masterpieces (I make this claim); we did loess in NZ, and fragipans- very satisfying.
12. Jan Piotrowski. From Poland to Waterloo, Ontario. Jan came to do post-graduate work on drumlins, and did a brilliant map of the famous Woodstock drumlin field. He moved on to become a guru of glacial geology, to do great work for INQUA, and to flourish in Aarhus.
13. Edward Derbyshire. The Centre for Loess Research & Documentation at Leicester University. Studies on slope stability in the thick loess at Lanzhou in China. The NATO conference on Collapsible Soils, organised by ED and held at Loughborough University. The LoessFest Conference at Heidelberg & Bonn, organised by ED, and Ludwig Zoeller and me; a wonderful event.
14. Tom Dijkstra. Tom joined the loess world to participate in the Loess Landslides project in Lanzhou. We wrote on packing and collapse, and he got his PhD from Utrecht University. We also produced plausible explanations for the collapse of the Teton Dam in Idaho, which (rather foolishly) had been built of loess.
15. C.D.F.Rogers. When the soil mechanics laboratory at Leicester University suddenly closed the Lanzhou landslide project was in danger of collapse, but Chris Rogers at Loughborough University came to the rescue. A sudden rush of papers on particle packing, on hydroconsolidation, on silt (the seminal paper on silt)- and calculations of the mode particle shape of loess particles- which turned out to be Zingg 3m blades.
16. A.M. Assallay. Bashir Assallay suddenly arrived at Loughborough proposing to do a PhD on Loess in Libya. Good timing; model studies of hydroconsolidation, and some validation of the Bryant theory of fragipan formation. He showed that there was an optimum clay content for collapse; too little clay- no collapse; too much clay- no collapse; but just right- then classic hydroconsolidation.
17. Ian Jefferson. The contract with NATO to investigate loess ground in Bulgaria. The idea was to bury nuclear waste in thick loess; protected from above, and below, by clay-rich palaeosols. We worked with the Academy of Sciences in Sofia and designed an outline repository to sit beside the reactors at Kozloduy, beside the Danube. There was a halt at that point as the funds ran out, but we think it is being built now.
18. Susan Dibben. Modelling of loess ground structures (for collapse studies) went in two directions: we invented the formation of the test sample by simply depositing model loess in an oedometer test ring (a method used by Bashir), and also the idea of using simple Monte Carlo methods to build computer models. Susan did computer models and they were very convincing.
19. Sally Bijl. The Bucklebury Ferry Smial of the Tolkien Society. The amazing realisation that the hobbits lived in a loess landscape; the Brandywine River is a yellow river (from the Elvish Baranduin- golden). If you live in a hole in the ground the odds are that the ground is loess. This led on to an appreciation of the glacierized nature of the landscape to the north (the drumlins of Arnor) and the fact that the hated brick houses in the Shire had been built of loess bricks, made probably at Stock. They were, ironically enough, Stock bricks. UK brick collectors will appreciate this.
20. Hugh Nugent. Packing; it has turned out that that loess is the only sediment in which particle packing is really important, and that loess is the only truly collapsible ground. Loess collapses inwards when it collapse; many so-called collapsible grounds simply disperse when the 'collapse' event occurs; quick clays are like this. So we keep on looking at packing. HN has so far done the only 'looking down' packing studies; all other packing studies are 'looking sideways' studies.
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11. Jewel Davin. Bibliographer. Jewel was the librarian at the Lower Hutt headquarters of the DSIR Soil Bureau in New Zealand. A great library- a bibliographic bonus; but DSIR delivered another bibliographic treasure- they published a series of 'Bibliographic Reports' which, since they were in effect in house journals, could be adapted to special requirements. BR28 and BR30 are masterpieces (I make this claim); we did loess in NZ, and fragipans- very satisfying.
12. Jan Piotrowski. From Poland to Waterloo, Ontario. Jan came to do post-graduate work on drumlins, and did a brilliant map of the famous Woodstock drumlin field. He moved on to become a guru of glacial geology, to do great work for INQUA, and to flourish in Aarhus.
13. Edward Derbyshire. The Centre for Loess Research & Documentation at Leicester University. Studies on slope stability in the thick loess at Lanzhou in China. The NATO conference on Collapsible Soils, organised by ED and held at Loughborough University. The LoessFest Conference at Heidelberg & Bonn, organised by ED, and Ludwig Zoeller and me; a wonderful event.
14. Tom Dijkstra. Tom joined the loess world to participate in the Loess Landslides project in Lanzhou. We wrote on packing and collapse, and he got his PhD from Utrecht University. We also produced plausible explanations for the collapse of the Teton Dam in Idaho, which (rather foolishly) had been built of loess.
15. C.D.F.Rogers. When the soil mechanics laboratory at Leicester University suddenly closed the Lanzhou landslide project was in danger of collapse, but Chris Rogers at Loughborough University came to the rescue. A sudden rush of papers on particle packing, on hydroconsolidation, on silt (the seminal paper on silt)- and calculations of the mode particle shape of loess particles- which turned out to be Zingg 3m blades.
16. A.M. Assallay. Bashir Assallay suddenly arrived at Loughborough proposing to do a PhD on Loess in Libya. Good timing; model studies of hydroconsolidation, and some validation of the Bryant theory of fragipan formation. He showed that there was an optimum clay content for collapse; too little clay- no collapse; too much clay- no collapse; but just right- then classic hydroconsolidation.
17. Ian Jefferson. The contract with NATO to investigate loess ground in Bulgaria. The idea was to bury nuclear waste in thick loess; protected from above, and below, by clay-rich palaeosols. We worked with the Academy of Sciences in Sofia and designed an outline repository to sit beside the reactors at Kozloduy, beside the Danube. There was a halt at that point as the funds ran out, but we think it is being built now.
18. Susan Dibben. Modelling of loess ground structures (for collapse studies) went in two directions: we invented the formation of the test sample by simply depositing model loess in an oedometer test ring (a method used by Bashir), and also the idea of using simple Monte Carlo methods to build computer models. Susan did computer models and they were very convincing.
19. Sally Bijl. The Bucklebury Ferry Smial of the Tolkien Society. The amazing realisation that the hobbits lived in a loess landscape; the Brandywine River is a yellow river (from the Elvish Baranduin- golden). If you live in a hole in the ground the odds are that the ground is loess. This led on to an appreciation of the glacierized nature of the landscape to the north (the drumlins of Arnor) and the fact that the hated brick houses in the Shire had been built of loess bricks, made probably at Stock. They were, ironically enough, Stock bricks. UK brick collectors will appreciate this.
20. Hugh Nugent. Packing; it has turned out that that loess is the only sediment in which particle packing is really important, and that loess is the only truly collapsible ground. Loess collapses inwards when it collapse; many so-called collapsible grounds simply disperse when the 'collapse' event occurs; quick clays are like this. So we keep on looking at packing. HN has so far done the only 'looking down' packing studies; all other packing studies are 'looking sideways' studies.
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