Quantifying fault-zone activity in arid environments with high-resolution topography

Monitoring fault zone environments with correlations of earthquake waveforms

S U M M A R Y We develop a new technique for monitoring temporal changes in fault zone environments based on cross-correlation of earthquake waveforms recorded by pairs of stations. The method is applied to waveforms of∼10 000 earthquakes observed during 100 d around the 1999M 7.1 Duzce mainshock by a station located in the core damage zone of the North Anatolian Fault and a nearby station. To ...

Quantifying sediment transport across an undisturbed prairie landscape using cesium-137 and high resolution topography

Soil erosion is a global environmental problem, and anthropogenic fallout radionuclides offer a promising tool for describing and quantifying soil redistribution on decadal time scales. To date, applications of radioactive fallout to trace upland sediment transport have been developed primarily on lands disturbed by agriculture, grazing, and logging. Here we use Cs to characterize and quantify ...

Unmasking fault tolerance: quantifying deterministic recovery dynamics in probabilistic environments

English) The present thesis focuses on distributed systems operating under probabilistic influences like faults. How well can such systems provide their service under the effects of faults? How well can they recover from faults? The present thesis introduces with limiting window availability a suitable measure to answer such questions, and presents a method for its computation. For the computat...

Arid Zone Forestry with Special Reference to Indian Hot Arid Zone

Literature in the Arid Zone

This chapter surveys and assesses from an ecocentric perspective some representative literary portrayals of the Australian deserts. Generally, it contrasts works that portray the desert as an alien, hostile, and undifferentiated void with works that recognise and value the biological particularities of specific desert places. It explores the literature of three dominant cultural orientations to...