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…
Category: bimrocks
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What are YOU doing with bimrocks info from this website?
I started the geoengineer.org/bimrocks website in 2008 and this bimrocks website in 2010. Since 2008 I have rarely looked at the website traffic statistics collected on my Statcounter account. So I today reviewed in detail surprising lifetime statistics for the two websites: bimrocks.com (August 2010 to March 2023): 25,670 page visits; 12,340 unique visits; 10,940…
Bimrocks are NOT SRMs – but ARE bim materials/bimunits
Not for the first time, I recently received an enquiry from a researcher who is trying to sort out the abundant literature on Soil-Rock Mixtures and the relationship between SRMs and bimrocks/bimsoils. There seems to be a lot of money spent on research on SRMs in the extensive colluvial/debris flow deposits of interest for dams,…