INQUA Loess Focus Group Meeting 2013.

In honour of Professor Ian Smalley: “Loess & Dust: Geography-Geology-Archaeology”, Leicester/UK, 10-12 September 2013

http://inqua-loess.org/leicester2013.php

Registration & payment until 26th July 2013, abstract submission until 16th August 2013

A meeting dedicated to interfaces between the various involved disciplines; also focussing on new regions where loess exploration and investigation is happening, geotechnical aspects of loess and new techniques to date and characterise loess material, and in particular aiming to look at the human/loess interface. Loess had a critical role to play in the development of human society.

Keynote speakers

R. Schaetzl: Loess deposits in the Midwestern United States: Geography matters!

Ian Smalley: Loess: then, now, tomorrow, eventually

Tributes to Ian Smalley will be paid by Claudio Vita Finzi and James Kwong.

Sessions will focus on the following topics:

1. A plenary session - in honour of Professor Smalley's research;

2. The reconstruction of loess environments through the Quaternary;

3. Landscape evolution and loess;

4. New chronological methods;

5. Loess geomagnetism;

6. Novel geochemical analytical techniques;

7. Geoarchaeology and loess;

8. Humans and dust in the modern landscape;

9. Eurasian loess

10. North American loess;

11. Loess around the Mediterranean.