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What is this web site?  This site is an accessible  
source of information on bimrocks for geological and
geotechnical practitioners. Currently, there is no
other site like this one.

What are bimrocks?  Bimrocks are block-in-matrix
rocks, mixtures of stronger blocks of rock surrounded
by weaker matrix rocks. Bimrocks are geologically,
spatially, and mechanically heterogeneous. Bimrocks  
include melanges, fault rocks, weathered rocks,
lahars and some "rock/soil mixtures."

So what?  Bimrocks universally frustrate the
economic and accurate characterization, design and
construction  of civil  engineering works.

Who cares?  Bimrocks are troublesome to
geotechnical engineers, geologists, contractors and
owners. Attorneys offer  to resolve the troubles.

Want information on bimrocks?  See the
presentation "An Introduction to Bimrocks"  
and other resources :




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Franciscan Complex melange:
blocks in sheared matrix
click to download
NEW PAPER:

Geopractitioner
Approaches to Working
With Antisocial
Melanges

Submitted for 2010
publication by the
Geological Society of
America in a Special
Publication "Melanges:
Processes of Formation
and Societal
Significance", (ed. J.
Wakabayashi and Y.
Dilek)

download paper