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Rimforest Landslides, San Bernardino Mountains, Southern California
<p>The highly visible erosional scars near the crest of the San Bernardino Mountains just east of Strawberry Peak near the community of Rimforest are active landslides. From at least the 1920's to 1988 the primary activity has been mass wasting by rockfall in highly fractured quartz monzonite. …
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Lithology of the sea-floor off Southern California
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Kinematic models of interseismic deformation in Southern California
… We identify regions of local moment deficit in Southern California by comparing historical earthquake catalogs with the fault slip rate catalogs derived from both geologic and geodetic data. Large moment release deficits are localized in the northern Mojave Desert, San Jacinto fault, San Andreas …
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Gravity study of the southern California continental borderland.
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 1969.
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Municipal layoffs in Southern California: Should seniority outweigh productivity?
… of human resources professionals in 30 mid-size Southern California cities. The survey provided information on the layoff experiences of respondents' cities and the current state of affairs pertaining to layoff policies, procedures and perceptions.
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Physical education curriculum for high school boys in southern California
Many physical educators active in the field fail to accept this recent trend as an educational challenge. There continues to be a lack of diligent work on the development of a worthy instructional curriculum. The purpose of this study is to provide an objective and tangible outline for the physical …
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Temporal Fatty Acid Fluctuations of Pachygrapsus crassipes in Southern California
<p>The current investigation identified fatty acids (FAs) and quantified total and specific FA concentrations in the striped shore crab, <em>Pachygrapsus crassipes.</em> I examined changes in the abundance of individual FAs and FA saturation categories (saturated, monounsaturated, polyunsaturated) …
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Phylogeography of the Night Lizard, Xantusia henshawi, from Southern California
… lizard found in the Peninsular Ranges of southern California, United States and northern Baja California, Mexico. Generally, little morphological variation is seen in this species over a variety of habitats throughout its range, from elevations near sea level to approximately 2000 meters, …
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Interpreting Southern California Arc Geochemistry by Multivariate and Spatial Methods
… to a large igneous geochemical dataset from the southern California segment of the Mesozoic Cordilleran arc to better understand magmatic and plate tectonic processes at a subduction zone. A set of 287 granitic samples collected by Baird and Miesch (1984) from the Peninsular Ranges batholith is …
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The Dynamics of Human and Rattlesnake Conflict in Southern California
… (Crotalus ruber) near residential development in southern California. Snake activity ranges and risk of moving near human-modified areas were larger for LDT and SDT snakes than for non-translocated snakes. Snakes moved closer to human-modified areas and required translocation more often during the …
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Comparisons of geological models to GPS observations in southern California
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, 1998.
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Population ecology of the dinoflagellate species Lingulodinium Polyedrum in southern California
… a common bloom-forming dinoflagellate species in Southern California. Lingulodinium polyedrum is not considered a HAB species, but functions as one of the main model organisms for dinoflagellate biology. As such, knowledge about this species also contributes significantly to the understanding of …
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Effect of Pollution on Genetic Diversity in the Southern California Bight
… from seven different bay sites along the Southern California coast to test if environmental contamination is associated with the decrease of genetic diversity at the population level. Collections were made at three relatively pristine "clean" sites and four "impacted" sites which were …
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La Casita -- housing designed for Latinos : two cases from Southern California
… This demographic trend is most apparent in Southern California. While much attention has been paid to making homeownership more accessible to Latinos, no serious considerations have been given as to how or if the housing product should be adapted. I contend that because Latinos have distinct …
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Neotectonics and Paleoseismology of the North Frontal Thrust System, southern California
… between the Transverse Ranges and the Eastern California shear zone in southern California provides a natural analog to the seismic setting of the Los Angeles basin. Along the northern flank of the San Bernardino Mountains, the east-west trending North Frontal thrust system is intersected by …
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A Study of Shared Instructional Leadership by Mentor Teachers in Southern California
… and administrator collaboration? 4. Did the California Mentor Teacher Program help reduce teacher isolation through teacher collaboration? 5. Did the mentor teachers satisfy the needs and wants of themselves, other teachers, and the principal through the sharing of instructional leadership? …
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the "Gill System": analyzing Irving Gill's concrete construction methods in Southern California
… System,” a concrete wall system developed by Southern California architect Irving J. Gill (1870–1936) between 1919 and 1922. While existing scholarship on Gill largely emphasizes his early Modernism and experiments in social housing, few studies have been conducted on his construction …
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