A man from Bendery: L.S. Berg as geographer and loess scholar

dc.contributor.authorSmalley, Ian
dc.contributor.authorMarkovic, Slobodan
dc.contributor.authorO’Hara-Dhand, Ken
dc.contributor.authorWynn, Peter
dc.date.accessioned2010-09-16T12:39:12Z
dc.date.available2010-09-16T12:39:12Z
dc.date.issued2010-06
dc.description.abstractLev Semenovich Berg was born in Bendery, in Moldova. He had great success as an ichthyologist and geographer; he also proposed, in 1916, an interesting theory of loess formation. As a biologist he was persecuted by Lysenko and the Soviet state in the time of pseudo-science in the 1930s and 1940s. Despite his being persecuted, the loess theory became, in effect, the official Soviet theory of loess formation. This theory had to be compatible with his ‘landscape’ theory which did not find favour in Marxist-Leninist geography. Berg’s loess theory was very much a geographical theory, as opposed to the geological theory of aeolian deposition, which was accepted outside the Soviet Union. Berg was hugely successful in many fields, but his contributions to loess science tend to be neglected. His ‘soil’ theory of loess formation has been widely disparaged but still has some influence in Russia. The concept of loessification may still be relevant to the later stages of deposit formation; the slow transition from metastable to collapsible may be best described as loessification.pl_PL
dc.identifier.citationGeologos vol. 16 (2), 2010, pp. 111-119.pl_PL
dc.identifier.issn1426-8981
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10593/566
dc.language.isoenpl_PL
dc.publisherBogucki Wydawnictwo Naukowepl_PL
dc.subjectLev Semenovich Bergpl_PL
dc.subjectTheories of loess formationpl_PL
dc.subjectLandscape theorypl_PL
dc.subjectLoessificationpl_PL
dc.titleA man from Bendery: L.S. Berg as geographer and loess scholarpl_PL
dc.typeArtykułpl_PL

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