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Announcement: 2nd International Workshop on Complex Formations

Posted on January 19, 2023 by Ed Medley

Keep in touch with the many folk now working in bimrocks and bimsoils – visit Turin in May for the 2nd International Workshop on Complex Formations, co-sponsored by the Polytechnic University of Turin and Italian Geotechnical Association. I am presenting … Continue reading →

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Getting back to work again

Posted on October 24, 2020 by Ed Medley

After far too many years of sloth, it is time to update the bimrocks site. Update? More like give the site a thorough cleaning, retrofit, remodel… Why now? A colleague in Iran suggested gently that the site needed some overhaul. … Continue reading →

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On First Encountering Melange

Posted on September 9, 2010 by Ed Medley

This tale has been told before (at my website edmedley.com) but it is not a bad story and can bear re-telling.. My life and career lurched abruptly  in early 1989, when I first encountered a melange.

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