The papers, presentations, dissertations, posters, Short Courses and photographs here are offered by myself and others who have kindly extended their permission. Use the resources freely, but please credit authors!
Papers on Block Proportions and Block Size Distributions
Medley, E.W. and Goodman, R.E., 1994; Estimating the block volumetric proportions of melanges and similar block-in-matrix rocks (bimrocks), Proceedings, 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, TX, May 1994.
Medley, E., 1994; Using stereological methods to estimate the volumetric proportions of blocks in melanges and similar block-in-matrix rock (bimrocks), Proceedings, 7th Congressional International Association of Engineering Geologists, Lisbon, Portugal, September 1994.
Medley, E., 1997; Uncertainty in estimates of block volumetric proportions in melange bimrocks, Proceedings, International Association of Engineering Geologists, Athens, Greece, June 23–27, 1997.
Medley, E., 2002; Estimating block size distributions of melanges and similar block-in-matrix rocks (bimrocks), Proceedings, 5th North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, July 2002, pp. 599–606.
Haneberg, W. C., 2004; Simulation of 3D block populations to characterize outcrop sampling bias in bimrocks, Felsbau Rock and Soil Engineering-Journal for Engineering Geology, Geomechanics and Tunneling, vol. 22, No. 5, September 2004.
Papers on Characterization
Medley, E., 2001; Orderly Characterization of Chaotic Franciscan Melanges, Felsbau Rock and Soil Engineering-Journal for Engineering Geology, Geomechanics and Tunneling, Vol. 19, No. 4, pp. 20-33, July 2001.
Riedmueller G., F. J. Brosch, K. Klima, and E. Medley, 2001; Engineering Geological Characterization of Brittle Faults and Classification of Fault Rocks, Felsbau Rock and Soil Engineering-Journal for Engineering Geology, Geomechanics and Tunneling, Vol. 19, No. 4, pp. 13-18, July 2001.
Wakabayashi, J. and E. Medley, 2002; Melange and Fault Rocks Exposed In and Around an Abandoned Quarry at the Schmidt Lane Recycling Center, El Cerrito, California, (with Appendices), in Mathieson, E.L., Field Trip Guide for AEG-ASCE Short Course: Tunnelling in Fault Rocks and Tectonic Melanges, a Short course for Engineering Geologists and Geotechnical Engineers, held in Oakland California, May 31-June 1, 2002.
Wakabayashi, J. and E. Medley, 2004; Geological Characterization of Melanges for Practitioners; Felsbau Rock and Soil Engineering-Journal for Engineering Geology, Geomechanics and Tunneling, vol. 22, No. 5, September 2004.
Medley, E., 2004; Observations on Tortuous Failure Surfaces, Felsbau Rock and Soil Engineering-Journal for Engineering Geology, Geomechanics and Tunneling, vol. 22, No. 5, September 2004.
Medley, E., 2007a; Bimrocks-Part 1: Introduction, Newsletter of the Hellenic Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, February 2007, No. 7, pp 17-21 with Errata.
Medley, E., 2007b; Bimrocks – Part 2: Case Histories and Practical Guidelines, Newsletter of the Hellenic Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, April 2007, No. 8, pp 26-31.
Medley, E., 2008; Engineering the Geological Chaos of Franciscan and Other Bimrocks, Proc. Session 12: Melanges, Mixed Materials and Chaotic Rocks, 42nd U.S. Rock Mechanics Symposium and 2nd U.S.-Canada Rock Mechanics Symposium, San Francisco, July 2008 (Also: June 28 2008 Field Trip Guide for an informal tour of Francsican complex melanges in the San Francisco Bay Area)
Medley, E. and Zekkos, D. (2010-in press); Geopractitioner Approaches to Working With Antisocial Melanges, as accepted for publication in Special Publication on Melanges: Processes of Formation and Societal Significance, ed. Wakabayashi, J. and Y. Dilek, Geological Society of America, Boulder, CO
Papers on Strength and Deformation Properties
Lindquist, E.S, and R.E. Goodman, 1994; Strength and deformation properties of a physical model melange, Proceedings, 1st North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, Austin, TX, May 1994.
Sönmez, H., C. Geokceoglu, E. Tuncay, H. Nefeslioglu, and E. Medley, 2004; Relationships Between Volumetric Block Proportions and Overall UCS of a Volcanic Bimrock, Felsbau Rock and Soil Engineering-Journal for Engineering Geology, Geomechanics and Tunneling, vol. 22, No. 5, September 2004.
Sönmez, H., H. Altinsoy, C. Gokceoglu and E. Medley, 2006; Considerations in Developing an Empirical Strength Criterion for Bimrocks, Asian Rock Mechanics Symposium (ARMS 2006), November 6-10, Singapore.
Sönmez, H., K. Kasapoglu, C Coskun, C. Tunusluoglu, E. Medley and R. Zimmerman, 2009; A Conceptual Empirical Approach for the Overall Strength of Unwelded Bimrocks, in Proc. Rock Engineering in Difficult Ground Conditions, Karst and Soft Rock, Int. Soc. Rock Mechanics Regional Symposium, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 29-31 October, 2009
Papers on Scale Independence
Medley, E. and E.S. Lindquist, 1995; The engineering significance of the scale-independence of some Franciscan melanges in California USA, Proceedings, 35th U.S. Rock Mechanics Conference, Lake Tahoe, California, June 1995.
Papers on Slope Stability
Kim, C, C. Snell and E. Medley, 2004; Shear Strength of Franciscan Complex Mélange as Calculated From Back-Analysis of a Landslide, Proceedings 5th International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering, New York, NY, April 2004.
Medley, E. and P. Sanz Rehermann, 2004; Characterization of Bimrocks (Rock/Soil Mixtures) with Application to Slope Stability Problems, Proceedings of Eurock 2004 and 53rd Geomechanics Colloquium, Salzburg, Austria, October 2004
Papers on Tunneling and Dams
Button, E., G. Riedmueller, W. Schubert and E. Medley, 2004; Tunnelling in Tectonic Melanges: Accommodating the Impacts of Geomechanical Complexities and Anisotropic Rock Mass Fabrics, Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment, March 2004.
Moritz, B., K. Grossauer and W. Schubert, 2004; Short term prediction of system behaviour of shallow tunnels in heterogeneous ground, Felsbau Rock and Soil Engineering-Journal for Engineering Geology, Geomechanics and Tunneling, vol. 22, No. 5, September, 2004.
Glawe, U., and B. N. Upreti, 2004; Better understanding the strengths of serpentinite bimrock and homogeneous serpentinite; Felsbau Rock and Soil Engineering-Journal for Engineering Geology, Geomechanics and Tunneling, vol 22, No. 5, September 2004.
Felsbau, October 2004 Edition on Bimrocks
The October 2004 edition of Felsbau Journal of Rock and Soil Engineering, edited by Dr. Edmund Medley. The Journal is sponsored by the Austrian Society for Geomechanics (http://www.oegg.at). The October 2004 edition was devoted to papers on bimrocks and included contributions on characterization, tortuosity, slopes, tunneling, and dams. Individual papers are as listed above. Also: the complete October 2004 edition of Felsbau is available (9MB).
The October 2004 edition is provided here with permission from the Chief Editor of Felsbau and the Publisher, VGE (Verlag GE, Essen) of Essen, Germany (www.vge.de/Engl.html), who also provided the PDFs.
The October 2004 edition of Felsbau was dedicated to the late Professor Gunter Riedmueller (1940-2003), an outstanding international engineering geologist and a premier authority on the characterization of fault rocks, tectonic melanges and other bimrocks.
