Ciao Bimba
I think of myself as a bimbo – one who specializes in bimrocks (block-in-matrix rocks). If I were French researcher I would be a bimbeau. or if a French woman researcher, I would be a bimbelle. Read more
On First Encountering Melange
My life lurched in early 1989, when I first encountered melange. Melanges (mélange, French for “mixture”) are heterogeneous muddles of strong rock blocks embedded within weak rocks, often sheared shale. The melange underlies the lower slopes of San Bruno Mountain in South San Francisco, and is part of the Franciscan Complex, a regional-scale jumble of tectonically rafted and crammed plates of exotic crust. (I could write more romantic twaddle about the Franciscan but John McPhee does a much better job than me with his prosaic book Assembling California). I had never before seen such a complex mess of rocks. Read more
bimrock bimbo
I am a bimbo – I study bimrocks. Bimrocks are my research and professional passion. I don’t breath heavily over bimrocks, but I do find them challenging and well worth the effort I have expended on them. Read more
