A young man in a faraway dominion of my life told me the other day that this website (edmedley.com) was full of my “self-elations”. Although puzzled at his choice of words, I did not correct him, since I think I knew what he was trying to say. Because the overall tang of his words was…
Category: Bimrocks/Melanges
related to bimrocks in general, and melanges in particular
Buccaneering BIM/Geoengineering
Updated November 23 2021 It is with increasing amusement that I peruse the subject lines of emails containing the acronym BIM. Many years ago I coined the acronym bimrocks (block-in-matrix rocks). The bim bit has prompted gleeful scribbles over the years, what with bimbo and bimba. This past month an architect in Iran offered to…
Ciao Bimba
I think of myself as a bimbo – one who specializes in bimrocks (block-in-matrix rocks). For several years I proudly wore the PhD Graduation T-shirt that Jim Falls, CEG gave me in 1994, emblazoned with his word “bimbeau“, a more elegant alternative to my bimbo. I suppose if I were a French woman researcher, I would…
On First Encountering Melange
My life and career lurched abruptly in early 1989, when I first encountered a melange. Melanges are heterogeneous mixtures of strong rock blocks embedded within weak rocks, often sheared shale. Actually: melange is shorthand for “melanges” which like most other rock-types tend to be different-looking rock masses in different places. After 1989 my research and a large part of my…