Origin and evolution of modern loess science-1824 to 1964

doi:10.1016/j.jseaes.2018.10.024

	Origin and evolution of modern loess science-1824 to 1964
	Ding, Hong 1,5; Li, Yanrong 4; Yang, Yang 3; Jia, Xin 2
刊名	JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES
	2019-02-01
卷号	170 页码:45-55
关键词	Loess science Origin Development Spread Rhine valley China
ISSN号	1367-9120
DOI	10.1016/j.jseaes.2018.10.024
通讯作者	Li, Yanrong(li.dennis@hotmail.com)
英文摘要	Loess is the most important aeolian deposit of the Quaternary and plays an important role in explorations of the evolution of paleoclimate and paleoenvironment. In recent years, historians of science have been working on how loess research originated, developed, and was promoted in Europe in the early 19th century. The Chinese community has a clear history of the loess research from the late 20th century. However, it remains unclear when and how modern loess studies were communicated between western and eastern academic societies and who contributed to the development and dissemination of modem loess knowledge, especially from the western to the eastern societies. Based on books, essays, memoirs, travel notes, published letters, and other types of records from geologists, such as K. Leonhard (1779-1862), C. Lyell (1797-1875), and R. Pumpelly (1837-1923), the present study clarifies the way and process by which loess research originated from the Rhine valley and spread to Britain onto the United States and, in particular, China. It was discovered that loess was formally defined in 1824 in the Rhine valley. In the 1830s, L. Homer (1785-1864) and Lyell introduced loess research from the Rhine valley to Britain. At the same time, Lyell put forward the theory of the fluvial origin of loess and verified his theory by expanding study areas to the United States. In 1866, Pumpelly, the first foreign geologist investigating Chinese loess, put forward lacustrine formation of loess. Pumpelly's hypothesis was soon argued against in 1870 by F. von Richthofen (1833-1905), who thought loess was formed via an aeolian mode based on a wide investigation in the Loess Plateau of China. Although the above main hypotheses originated based on investigations of Chinese loess, they were not disseminated to China and received by Chinese scholars in a timely manner, and the local loess research in China launched almost 130 years later by the stimulation from work by scholars of the Soviet Union.
资助项目	National Natural Science Foundation of China[41877276] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[41630640] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[41790445]
WOS研究方向	Geology
语种	英语
出版者	PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
WOS记录号	WOS:000460713200004
资助机构	National Natural Science Foundation of China
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.ihns.ac.cn/handle/311051/7456]
专题	中国科学院自然科学史研究所
作者单位	1.TaiyuanUnivTechnol,CollMarxism,Taiyuan030024,Shanxi,PeoplesRChina; 2.NanjingUniv,SchGeog&OceanogSci,Nanjing210023,Jiangsu,PeoplesRChina 3.ShanxiUniv,InstHistSci&Technol,Taiyuan030006,Shanxi,PeoplesRChina; 4.TaiyuanUnivTechnol,DeptEarthSci&Engn,Taiyuan030024,Shanxi,PeoplesRChina; 5.ChineseAcadSci,InstHistNatSci,Beijing100190,PeoplesRChina;
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Ding, Hong,Li, Yanrong,Yang, Yang,et al. Origin and evolution of modern loess science-1824 to 1964[J]. JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES,2019,170:45-55.
APA	Ding, Hong,Li, Yanrong,Yang, Yang,&Jia, Xin.(2019).Origin and evolution of modern loess science-1824 to 1964.JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES,170,45-55.
MLA	Ding, Hong,et al."Origin and evolution of modern loess science-1824 to 1964".JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES 170(2019):45-55.