First excavated in 1938, the site of Muscupiabit (CA-SBR-425/H) has long been a subject of archaeological research in the San Bernardino Mountains. Previous excavations at the site have either been unpublished or limited in scope. A primary goal was to obtain a radiocarbon date for the site, giving a definitive age to the site. Other goals included determining the population size of Muscupiabit as well as the function of the site and its place in the Serrano settlement system. To obtain dateable material, an excavation was conducted in hopes of locating a thermal feature. An intact thermal feature was found and charcoal was recovered. In order to adequately address the proposed research questions, museum collections were used to gain a larger sample size. A large quantity of artifacts had been excavated in the 1980s but were never analyzed. Between those excavations and the 2017 excavations, 7 units were analyzed. Additionally, population records from the Spanish mission system were analyzed to address research questions about population size. Based on a radiocarbon date, shell bead types, and population records, it appears that Muscupiabit was occupied in the late 17th/early 18th century and was likely abandoned by 1815. Despite its location along a trade route, the site does not appear to have been controlling trade. Muscupiabit was intermarried with other villages but it’s level of political independence cannot be determined at this time.

Ingeniero Civil Mecánico / Para lograr el transporte de relaves en la minería del cobre a través de la accidentada geografía del norte de Chile, en algunos casos se opta por utilizar una configuración de canaletas y cajones disipadores. El propósito de los cajones es amortiguar caídas bruscas de elevación y cambiar la dirección del flujo. Estos sistemas de transporte en canaletas y cajones disipadores han sido estudiados en las últimas décadas obteniendo una metodología de diseño medianamente probada, que es el resultado de la experiencia adquirida en proyectos desarrollados en Chile. Sin embargo, la mayoría de estos estudios y los datos obtenidos son de carácter privado y no son del todo generalizables, dependiendo cada caso de las condiciones de operación y las características del relave a transportar. Se cuenta con datos de un cajón que presentó fallas en el pasado debido al desgaste acelerado provocado por un mal diseño. El desgaste es un tema fundamental a la hora de diseñar estos sistemas, debido a las características abrasivas del relave. Se quiere estudiar más en profundidad la fluidodinámica detrás del funcionamiento de este tipo de cajones, y en este contexto, una metodología que viene siendo desarrollada con gran fuerza en el último tiempo es la simulación computacional, la cual será aplicada en este trabajo. El objetivo del presente trabajo de título es analizar, mediante la simulación fluidodinámica computacional, el flujo de relaves de minería en un cajón disipador de canaleta, y su relación con el desgaste en las paredes. Para esto, se utilizará el software comercial CFX 14.0, parte de la suite ANSYS. Se generará un modelo 3D del cajón a estudiar, se realizará un análisis de sensibilidad de mallado y se simulará para cuatro caudales de operación distintos. Se analizarán los datos obtenidos, poniendo énfasis en variables de interés como la trayectoria del chorro, el campo de velocidades del relave y los esfuerzos de corte y presiones, tanto en el fondo como en las paredes del cajón. Se espera encontrar condiciones propicias para la aparición de desgaste acelerado, como altas velocidades y concentración de esfuerzos de corte cerca de la zona de desgaste observada en la realidad. Además, se propondrán modificaciones al diseño de acuerdo a los resultados y se simulará para las mismas cuatro condiciones de caudal que el caso base. Finalmente, se concluirá respecto de la fluidodinámica detrás de la disipación del chorro dentro del cajón estudiado y su vinculación con el desgaste observado, y de la efectividad de las modificaciones propuestas para este caso.

Damage zones adjacent to or associated with faults are important to the geologic community because of their implications to hazards and their ability to preserve evidence for, and show history of, slip, fluid flow, and deformation associated with large strike-slip faults. We examine two fault zones in southern California where fault zone damage is expressed. We revisit the drilled crystalline core from the Cajon Pass California drill hole, 4 km northeast of the San Andreas fault (SAF), and 1 km north of the Cleghorn fault, to perform a systematic structural analysis of deformation and alteration associated with strike-slip faulting at the site. The core preserved 19 fault zones, 11 of which were not previously identified. The most significant fault is a fully intact steep-dipping fault zone at 3,402 m depth with potassium feldspar and epidote alteration. This fault correlates well with the nearby left-lateral Cleghorn fault. The extent of deformation varies within the core, and is controlled by the size of the fault zones intersected by the core. The extent of deformation varies and is controlled by the size of the faults the core intersected. We also examined the nature of right separation across the Clark fault damage zone along the Santa Rosa segment using a marker assemblage of biotite, hornblende-bearing tonalite - marble - bearing metasedimentary rocks - migmatite located in Coyote Mountain and the southeast Santa Rosa Mountains. Separation measured from this study is 16.8 km + 3.67 km / -6.03 km. Our measurement uses the updated location of the Clark fault in Clark Lake Valley and matches a distinctive lithologic contact across the fault instead of matching the diffuse western boundary of the Eastern Peninsular mylonite zone as previously used. We calculate the errors associated with projecting the contacts across Quaternary cover to the trace of the Clark fault, and consider a range of projections. Additional strain may have been accommodated in folds and small faults within the damage zone of the San Jacinto fault zone. Two large map-scale folds deform the marker assemblage near the San Jacinto fault zone and we tested whether Cretaceous ductile deformation or brittle late Quaternary right slip produced the folds.

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The play, Madagascar Mayhem, was devised as a means of developing ecological understanding about rain forest preservation and educating and expanding upon the use of drama as it relates to environmental education. By being involved in and learning about issues addressed in the play's content, students learned about how their actions may have a positive impact on rain forest preservation, the biodiversity of Madagascar, its agricultural loss and the movement to protect it.