Ok Tedi (pronounced “Ock Teddy”) is a river (ok) in the Western Provinces of Papua New Guinea (PNG) near the border with Irian Jaya, Indonesia. The river runs through the most remote part of the country. I worked at Ok Tedi for most of 1982 as the field Project Manager for a large geotechnical engineering…
Category: Geopractice
Geological Engineering, geotechnical engineering and engineering geology
Snow Jobs
Halifax, Nova Scotia was enveloped in a blizzard when I disembarked from the M/S Lundefjell in February 1969. I had rarely seen, felt, played in or hated snow until I emigrated to Canada. They do good snow in Canada
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…