California Connections

Possible Earthquake Rupture Connections on Mapped California Faults Ranked by Calculated Coulomb Linking Stresses

Probabilistic seismic hazard assessment is requiring an increasingly broad compilation of earthquake sources. Fault systems are often divided into characteristic ruptures based on geometric features such as bends or steps, though events such as the 2002 M 7.9 Denali, and 2011 M 9.0 Tohoku-Oki earthquakes raise the possibility that earthquakes can involve subsidiary faults and/or rupture through...

Subducted carbonates, metasomatism of mantle wedges, and possible connections to diamond formation: An example from California

We investigated calcite globules and veins in two spinel-garnet peridotite xenoliths from the subSierra Nevada mantle. The studied xenoliths were entrained in a Miocene (11 Ma) volcanic plug. These carbonates are associated spatially with silicate glass inclusions, suggesting that they are primary inclusions—inclusions that formed at high temperature in the mantle and not at or close to the Ear...

Temporal connections between Culex tarsalis abundance and transmission of western equine encephalomyelitis virus in California.

Definition of targets for vector control requires an understanding of the relationship between vector abundance and the intensity of arbovirus transmission. Using an extensive surveillance dataset with observations from sentinel chicken flocks and mosquito traps paired in time and space, hierarchical autoregressive logistic regression models were developed to predict the probability of seroconv...

Regular Connections among Generalized Connections

The properties of the space A of regular connections as a subset of the space A of generalized connections in the Ashtekar framework are studied. For every choice of compact structure group and smoothness category for the paths it is determined whether A is dense in A or not. Moreover, it is proven that A has Ashtekar-Lewandowski measure zero for every nontrivial structure group and every smoot...

Shen's Processes on Finslerian Connections