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Field observations of faulting and associated deformation are used here to reconstruct the structural and kinematic evolution of northern Owens Valley, California. This work consists of three stand-alone research contributions (Chapters Three, Four, and Five). Chapter Three presents a model for the structural evolution of northern Owens Valley; focusing on the origin and evolution of the 'Coyote Warp', as well as the relationship between normal shear along the Sierran Nevada range-front and dextral shear along the Owens Valley fault zone. This model relies on the theoretical relationship between fault spacing, fault dip, and seismogenic thickness in order to make predictions of crustal-scale conjugate normal fault intersection. Application of this model suggests that the structural evolution of northern Owens Valley can be explained in the context of a failed conjugate system, whereby fault intersection within the seismogenic crust results in the locking of one of the graben faults, and subsequent asymmetric range uplift and adjacent basin subsidence. Chapter Four presents a geologically based extensional slip rate history for the central portion of northern Owens Valley. Results suggest that the rate of extensional strain increased significantly since Middle Pleistocene time. These results are in agreement with similar observations of extension within and around northern Owens Valley, and correspond to a decrease in nearby rates of dextral shear over the same time interval. These observations are explained by a counter-clockwise rotation in the orientation of regional shear since Middle Pleistocene time. Furthermore, results from this study contribute to a geologically based extensional slip budget that is in agreement with geodetic based estimates of present-day strain accumulation. In Chapter Five, observations of fault length from several normal fault populations are used to examine the mechanisms that control the distribution of strain within the Eastern California Shear Zone. Results suggest that boundary fault spacing within shear induced fault networks plays a significant role in the redistribution of slip by placing geometric limitations on intermediary cross-cutting normal faults. Such redistribution is expected to occur over a timescale that is related to the lifespan of these constrained faults / acase@tulane.edu

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The failures and disappointments in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's family life affected his poetry in several significant ways. His inability to achieve lasting happiness as a son, brother, husband, and father contributed to his idealization of domestic love and to his dependence on surrogate brothers, sisters, and mothers. His childhood trauma and later domestic frustrations apparently led to a preoccupation with Cain themes and other familial conflicts; however, he was usually reluctant to present detailed examinations of such themes in his poetry, and in several of his narratives, disturbing parallels to his private disappointments may have been one cause of his surrender to his habitual tendency toward fragmentary compositions When Coleridge did not leave a work as a fragment, he often seems to have used other means of screening himself from distressing implications of fratricide and domestic turmoil; severely editing the text, portraying conflicts symbolically, masking characters' identities, manipulating contrasts between violence and supportive love, adopting a pose of religious righteousness, or leaving a work unpublished. In several early poems, he praises domestic heroes and contrasts the unity of God's family with protrayals of tyrants who destroy their victims' families. In the conversation poems he focuses selectively on the most rewarding aspects of his relationship with his wife, his son Hartley, and the Wordsworths. After the collapse of his marriage, he found that he had virtually nothing to communicate in poetry concerning his own family. Most of his love poems to Sara Hutchinson remained unpublished, while some of the published lyrics conceal her identity and speak of her as if she were his wife. 'Christabel,' 'The Wanderings of Cain,' and 'The Three Graves'--narratives that closely reflect Coleridge's domestic frustrations--remained fragments, while in 'The Ancient Mariner' he deals with fratricide symbolically instead of literally. He was able to complete the plays Osorio and Zapolya, but apparently only at the cost of de-emphasizing the potentially meaningful Cain themes and contrasting the villains with numerous other characters who essentially represent domestic virtue. Other plays, which would have treated domestic violence more directly, remained unwritten projects / acase@tulane.edu

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This study examines Late to Terminal Classic Maya evidence excavated from a small area of the south sector of the Main Group at Copan, Honduras, known as El Cementerio. Located in El Cementerio are a group of crude platforms where low-status retainers performed work in support of their elite masters residing in the adjacent courtyards. This is an investigation of the household and workshop areas in the central residential area of the Copan ruling dynasty in its final stages. The humble, cobble-faced platforms of El Cementerio that originally held wattle-and-daub buildings stand in contrast to the elaborately constructed and decorated elite structures immediately next door. Clarification of these architectural relationships and examination of the distribution of refuse middens in the area illuminates the social relationships of the occupants of these structures. Artifacts from the cobble-faced platforms provide a view of work areas situated outside the high-status residences, and comparison of different assemblages of these artifacts gives better understanding of the activities undertaken there / acase@tulane.edu

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