Alan Turing, David Hilbert, the Entscheidungs Problem, and the Future of Loess Research

by Ian Smalley, published in New Zealand Soil News, Vol 51 no.5 (2003).
This is an outline proposal for loess research for the near future.

Loess Mantle of the Earth and its Properties

Ed. by V.T.Trofimov, Moscow University Press 2001, 464pp (in Russian) ISBN 5-211-04336-7. A study of world-wide loess, but with some concentration on engineering-geological aspects. There is a review in Engineering Geology 66, 319-320, 2002

Marton Pecsi 1923 - 2003 Loess and paleoenvironments across Eurasia: Dedicated to the memory of Marton Pecsi. 2006 Ed by A.A.Velichko, A.E.Dodenov and N.R.Catto. Special issue of Quaternary international vol. 152/153, 20 papers, 201 pages. Papers presented at the Moscow meeting of INQUA Loess and Carbon Commissions.

Loessification: On the 130th anniversary of the birth of L.S.Berg.

I.Smalley, Z.Jary, K.O'Hara-Dhand 2006 (June). HPSSS Newsletter no. 13, 17-20.
This is the newsletter of the History group of the International Union for Soil Science.

Loess Letters 56 and 57

There are still a few copies available (June '07). These two LLs largely focus on matters Danubian and were specially published to support the Novi Sad '06 meeting of the INQUA Sub-commission on Loess Stratigraphy. 56 republishes the Julius Fink 1969 map showing loess research locations across Europe.