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An analysis of the factors that control fault zone architecture and the importance of fault orientation relative to regional stress
The moment magnitude 7.2 El Mayor−Cucapah (EMC) earthquake of 2010 in northern Baja California, Mexico produced a cascading rupture that propagated through a geometrically diverse network of intersecting faults. These faults have been exhumed from depths of 6−10 km since the late Miocene based on low-temperature thermochronology, synkinematic alteration, and deformational fabrics. Coseismic slip o
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Rau, B.M., P. Adler, C.J. Dell, D. Saha, and A. Kemanian. 2019. Herbaceous Perennial Biomass Production on Frequently Saturated Marginal Soils: Influence on N2O Emissions and Shallow Groundwater. Biomass and Bioenergy. 122:90-98.
Muwamba, A.B., B.M. Rau, C.C. Trettin, D.M. Amatya, E.W. Tollner, and S. Panda. 2019. Regional differences in water nitrogen, phosphorus, and sediment responses to forest harvesting in USA. Journal of Environmental Quality. doi:10.2134/jeq2018.04.0145.
Roundy, B.A., J.C. Chambers, D.A. Pyke, R.F. Miller, R.J. Tausch,, E.W. Schupp, B.M. Rau, and T. Gruell. 2018. Resilience and resistance in sagebrush ecosystems are associated with seasonal soil temperature and water availability. Ecosphere. doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.2417.
Griffith, N.A., B.M. Rau, K.B. Vache, G. Starr, M.M. Bitew, D.P. Aubrey, J.A. Martin, E. Benton, and C.R. Jackson. 2018. Environmental effects of short-rotation woody crops for bioenergy: What is and isn’t known. Global Change Biology-Bioenergy. 11:554-572.
Wagena, M.B., A.S. Collick, A. Ross, B. Rau, A. Sommerlot, R. Najjar, and Z.M. Easton. 2018. Quantifying the impact of climate change and climate extremes on hydrologic and biogeochemical processes in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. Science of the Total Environment. 637:1443-1454.
Saha, D., A.R. Kemanian, F. Montes, H. Gall, P.R. Adler, and B.M. Rau. 2018. Lorenz curve and gini coefficient reveal hot spots and hot moments for nitrous oxide emissions. Journal of Geophysical Research – Biogeosciences. 123:193-206.
Saha, D., A.R. Kemanian, B.M. Rau, and P.R. Adler. 2017. Designing efficient nitrous oxide sampling strategies in agroecosystems using simulation models. Atmospheric Environment. 155:189-198.
Saha, D., B.M. Rau, J.P. Kaye, F. Montes, P.R. Adler, A.R. Kemanian. 2017. Landscape control of nitrous oxide emissions during the transition from conservation reserve program to perennial grasses for bioenergy. Global Change Biology – Bioenergy. 9:783-795.
Rau, B.M., A. Muwamba, C. Trettin, S. Panda, D.M. Amattya, and E.W. Tollner. 2017. Water quality response to forest biomass utilization. in: R.A. Efroymson, M.L. Langholtz, K. Johnson, and B.J. Stokes (Eds), 2016 Billion-Ton Report: Advancing Domestic Resources for a Thriving Bioeconomy, Volume 2: Environmental Sustainability Effects of Select Scenarios from Volume 1., ORNL/TM-2016/727. Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN. 642p. doi 10.2172/1338837.
Sun, G., L. Zhang, K. Duan, and B.M. Rau. 2017. Impacts of forest biomass removal on water yield across the U.S. in: R.A. Efroymson, M.L. Langholtz, K. Johnson, and B.J. Stokes (Eds), 2016 Billion-Ton Report: Advancing Domestic Resources for a Thriving Bioeconomy, Volume 2: Environmental Sustainability Effects of Select Scenarios from Volume 1., ORNL/TM-2016/727. Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN. 642p. doi 10.2172/1338837.
Germino, M.J., J. Belnap, J.M. Stark, E.B. Allen, and B.M. Rau. 2016. Ecosystem impacts of exotic annual invaders in the genus Bromus. in: Germino, M.J., Chambers, and J.C., Brown, C.S. (eds.) Exotic brome grasses in arid and semi-arid ecosystems of the western US: Causes, consequences, and management implications. 61-95.
Belnap, J., J.M. Stark, B.M. Rau, E.B. Allen, and S. Phillips. 2016. Soil moisture and biogeochemical factors influence the distribution of annual Bromus species. in: Germino, M.J., Chambers, and J.C., Brown, C.S. (eds.) Exotic brome grasses in arid and semi-arid ecosystems of the western US: Causes, consequences, and management implications. 227-256.
Vaillant, N., E. Noonan-Wright, A. Reiner, C. Ewell, B.M. Rau, J.A. Fites-Kaufman, S. Dailey. 2015. Fuel accumulation and forest structure change following hazardous fuel reduction treatments throughout California. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 24(3):361-371.
Adler, P.R., B.M. Rau, and G.W. Roth. 2015. Sustainability of Corn Stover Harvest Strategies in Pennsylvania. BioEnergy Research. 8:1310-1320.
McIver, J.D., M. Brunson, S. Bunting, J. Chambers, P. Doescher, J. Grace, A. Hulet, D. Johnson, S. Knick, R. Miller, F. Pierson, D. Pyke, B.M. Rau, K. Rollins, B. Roundy, E. Schupp, R. Tausch, J. Williams. 2014. A synopsis of short-term response to alternative restoration treatments in sagebrush-steppe: the SageSTEP project. Rangeland Ecology and Management. 67:584-598.
Rau, B.M., J.C. Chambers, D.A. Pyke, B.A. Roundy, E.W. Schupp, P. Doescher and T.G. Caldwell. 2014. Soil resources influence vegetation and response to fire and fire-surrogate treatments in sagebrush-steppe ecosystems. Rangeland Ecology and Management. 67:506-521.
Roundy, B.A., K. Young, N. Cline, A. Hulet, R.F. Miller, R.J. Tausch, and B.M. Rau. 2014. Pinyon-juniper reduction increases soil water availability of the soil resource growth pool. Rangeland Ecology and Management. 67:495-505.
Roundy, B.A., R.F. Miller, R.J. Tausch, K. Young, A. Hulet, B.M. Rau, B. Jessop, J.C. Chambers, and D. Egget. 2014. Understory response to pinyon-juniper control across tree cover gradients in the Great Basin. Rangeland Ecology and Management. 67:482-494.
Perkins, L.B., R.R. Blank, S.D. Ferguson, D.W. Johnson, W.C. Lindamann, and B.M. Rau. 2013. Quick start guide to soil methods for ecologists. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics. 15:237-244.
Levine, C.R., R.D. Yanai, M.A. Vadeboncoeur, S.P. Hamburg, A.M. Melvin, C.L. Goodale, B.M. Rau, and D.W. Johnson. 2012. Assessing the suitability of rotary cores for sampling in rocky soils. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 76(5):1707-1718.
Johnson, D.W., R.F. Walker, M. McNulty, B.M. Rau and W.W. Miller. 2012. The long-term effects of wildfire and post-fire vegetation on Sierra Nevada forest soils. Forests. 3(2):398-416.
Rau, B.M., R.J. Tausch, A.L. Reiner, D.W. Johnson, J.C. Chambers, and R.R. Blank. 2012. Developing a model framework for predicting effects of woody expansion and fire on ecosystem carbon and nitrogen in a pinyon-juniper woodland. Journal of Arid Environments. 76:97-104.
Johnson, D.W., Miller, W.W., Rau, B.M., Meadows, M.W. 2011. The nature and potential causes of nutrient hot spots in a Sierra Nevada forest soil. Soil Science. 176(11):596-610.
Rau, B.M., Melvin, A., Johnson, D.W., Goodale, C.L., Todd, D.E., and R.R. Blank. 2011. Revisiting soil nutrient sampling: Quantitative pits vs. rotary cores. Soil Science. 176(6):273-279.
Johnson, D.W., J.D. Murphy, B.M. Rau and W.W. Miller. 2011. Subsurface carbon contents: Some case studies in forest soils. Forest Science. 57(1):3-10.
Johnson, D.W., C.F. Hunsaker, D.W. Glass, B.M. Rau, and B.A. Roath. 2011. Carbon and nutrient contents in soils from the King’s River experimental watershed, Sierran Nevada Mountains, California. Geoderma. 160:490-502.
Rau, B.M., Johnson, D.W., Blank, R.R., Luccesi, A, Caldwell, T.G., Tausch, R.J., Roundy, B.A., and R.F. Miller. 2011. Woodland expansion’s influence on belowground carbon and nitrogen in the Great Basin U.S. Journal of Arid Environments. 75:827-835.
Rau, B.M., Johnson, D.W., Blank, R.R., and A.Luccesi. 2011. Transition from sagebrush steppe to exotic annual grass (Bromus tectorum): Influence on belowground carbon and nitrogen in the intermountain U.S. Rangeland Ecology and Management. 64:139-147.
Rau, B.M., Tausch, R., Reiner, A.L., Johnson, D.W., Chambers, J.C., and R.R. Blank. 2010. Influence of prescribed fire on ecosystem biomass, carbon, and nitrogen in a pinyon juniper woodland. Rangeland Ecology and Management. 63:197-202.
Pierson, F.P., Williams, C., Kormos, P., Hardegee, S., Clark, P., and B.M. Rau. 2010. Hydrologic vulnerability of sagebrush steppe following pinyon and juniper encroachment. Rangeland Ecology and Management. 63:614-629.
Rau, B.M., Johnson, D.W., Chambers, J.C., Blank, R.R., and A. Luccesi. 2009. Estimating root biomass and distribution after fire in a Great Basin woodland using cores and pits. Western North American Naturalist. 69(4):459-465.
Rau, B.M., Johnson, D.W., Blank, R.R., and J.C. Chambers. 2009. Soil carbon and nitrogen in a Great Basin pinyon-juniper woodland; Influence of vegetation, burning, and time. Journal of Arid Environments. 73:472-479.
Rau, B.M., R.R. Blank, and T. Morgan. 2008. Microsite and time since prescribed fire’s influence on soil microbiology in a Pinyon woodland. In: Kitchen, Stanley G.; Pendleton, Rosemary L.; Monaco, Thomas A.; Vernon, Jason, comps. 2008. Proceedings - Shrublands under fire: disturbance and recovery in a changing world; 2006 June 6-8; Cedar City, UT. Proceedings RMRS-P-52. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 175-178.
Rau, B.M., Chambers, J.C., Blank, R.R., and D.W. Johnson. 2008. Prescribed fire, soil, and plants: Burn effects and interactions in the central Great Basin. Rangeland Ecology and Management. 61:169-181.
Rau, B.M., Blank, R.R., Chambers, J.C., and D.W. Johnson. 2007. Prescribed fire in a Great Basin sagebrush ecosystem: dynamics of soil extractable nitrogen and phosphorus. Journal of Arid Environments. 71:362-375.
Rau, B.M., Chambers, J.C., Blank, R.R., and W.W. Miller. 2005. Hydrologic response of a central Nevada pinyon-juniper woodland to prescribed fire. Rangeland Ecology and Management. 58(6):614-612.
**Disclaimer: The views expressed in Non-USGS publications are those of the author and do not represent the views of the USGS, Department of the Interior, or the U.S. Government.
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An analysis of the factors that control fault zone architecture and the importance of fault orientation relative to regional stress
The moment magnitude 7.2 El Mayor−Cucapah (EMC) earthquake of 2010 in northern Baja California, Mexico produced a cascading rupture that propagated through a geometrically diverse network of intersecting faults. These faults have been exhumed from depths of 6−10 km since the late Miocene based on low-temperature thermochronology, synkinematic alteration, and deformational fabrics. Coseismic slip oNon-USGS Publications**
Rau, B.M., P. Adler, C.J. Dell, D. Saha, and A. Kemanian. 2019. Herbaceous Perennial Biomass Production on Frequently Saturated Marginal Soils: Influence on N2O Emissions and Shallow Groundwater. Biomass and Bioenergy. 122:90-98.Muwamba, A.B., B.M. Rau, C.C. Trettin, D.M. Amatya, E.W. Tollner, and S. Panda. 2019. Regional differences in water nitrogen, phosphorus, and sediment responses to forest harvesting in USA. Journal of Environmental Quality. doi:10.2134/jeq2018.04.0145.Roundy, B.A., J.C. Chambers, D.A. Pyke, R.F. Miller, R.J. Tausch,, E.W. Schupp, B.M. Rau, and T. Gruell. 2018. Resilience and resistance in sagebrush ecosystems are associated with seasonal soil temperature and water availability. Ecosphere. doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.2417.Griffith, N.A., B.M. Rau, K.B. Vache, G. Starr, M.M. Bitew, D.P. Aubrey, J.A. Martin, E. Benton, and C.R. Jackson. 2018. Environmental effects of short-rotation woody crops for bioenergy: What is and isn’t known. Global Change Biology-Bioenergy. 11:554-572.Wagena, M.B., A.S. Collick, A. Ross, B. Rau, A. Sommerlot, R. Najjar, and Z.M. Easton. 2018. Quantifying the impact of climate change and climate extremes on hydrologic and biogeochemical processes in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. Science of the Total Environment. 637:1443-1454.Saha, D., A.R. Kemanian, F. Montes, H. Gall, P.R. Adler, and B.M. Rau. 2018. Lorenz curve and gini coefficient reveal hot spots and hot moments for nitrous oxide emissions. Journal of Geophysical Research – Biogeosciences. 123:193-206.Saha, D., A.R. Kemanian, B.M. Rau, and P.R. Adler. 2017. Designing efficient nitrous oxide sampling strategies in agroecosystems using simulation models. Atmospheric Environment. 155:189-198.Saha, D., B.M. Rau, J.P. Kaye, F. Montes, P.R. Adler, A.R. Kemanian. 2017. Landscape control of nitrous oxide emissions during the transition from conservation reserve program to perennial grasses for bioenergy. Global Change Biology – Bioenergy. 9:783-795.Rau, B.M., A. Muwamba, C. Trettin, S. Panda, D.M. Amattya, and E.W. Tollner. 2017. Water quality response to forest biomass utilization. in: R.A. Efroymson, M.L. Langholtz, K. Johnson, and B.J. Stokes (Eds), 2016 Billion-Ton Report: Advancing Domestic Resources for a Thriving Bioeconomy, Volume 2: Environmental Sustainability Effects of Select Scenarios from Volume 1., ORNL/TM-2016/727. Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN. 642p. doi 10.2172/1338837.Sun, G., L. Zhang, K. Duan, and B.M. Rau. 2017. Impacts of forest biomass removal on water yield across the U.S. in: R.A. Efroymson, M.L. Langholtz, K. Johnson, and B.J. Stokes (Eds), 2016 Billion-Ton Report: Advancing Domestic Resources for a Thriving Bioeconomy, Volume 2: Environmental Sustainability Effects of Select Scenarios from Volume 1., ORNL/TM-2016/727. Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN. 642p. doi 10.2172/1338837.Germino, M.J., J. Belnap, J.M. Stark, E.B. Allen, and B.M. Rau. 2016. Ecosystem impacts of exotic annual invaders in the genus Bromus. in: Germino, M.J., Chambers, and J.C., Brown, C.S. (eds.) Exotic brome grasses in arid and semi-arid ecosystems of the western US: Causes, consequences, and management implications. 61-95.Belnap, J., J.M. Stark, B.M. Rau, E.B. Allen, and S. Phillips. 2016. Soil moisture and biogeochemical factors influence the distribution of annual Bromus species. in: Germino, M.J., Chambers, and J.C., Brown, C.S. (eds.) Exotic brome grasses in arid and semi-arid ecosystems of the western US: Causes, consequences, and management implications. 227-256.Vaillant, N., E. Noonan-Wright, A. Reiner, C. Ewell, B.M. Rau, J.A. Fites-Kaufman, S. Dailey. 2015. Fuel accumulation and forest structure change following hazardous fuel reduction treatments throughout California. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 24(3):361-371.Adler, P.R., B.M. Rau, and G.W. Roth. 2015. Sustainability of Corn Stover Harvest Strategies in Pennsylvania. BioEnergy Research. 8:1310-1320.McIver, J.D., M. Brunson, S. Bunting, J. Chambers, P. Doescher, J. Grace, A. Hulet, D. Johnson, S. Knick, R. Miller, F. Pierson, D. Pyke, B.M. Rau, K. Rollins, B. Roundy, E. Schupp, R. Tausch, J. Williams. 2014. A synopsis of short-term response to alternative restoration treatments in sagebrush-steppe: the SageSTEP project. Rangeland Ecology and Management. 67:584-598.Rau, B.M., J.C. Chambers, D.A. Pyke, B.A. Roundy, E.W. Schupp, P. Doescher and T.G. Caldwell. 2014. Soil resources influence vegetation and response to fire and fire-surrogate treatments in sagebrush-steppe ecosystems. Rangeland Ecology and Management. 67:506-521.Roundy, B.A., K. Young, N. Cline, A. Hulet, R.F. Miller, R.J. Tausch, and B.M. Rau. 2014. Pinyon-juniper reduction increases soil water availability of the soil resource growth pool. Rangeland Ecology and Management. 67:495-505.Roundy, B.A., R.F. Miller, R.J. Tausch, K. Young, A. Hulet, B.M. Rau, B. Jessop, J.C. Chambers, and D. Egget. 2014. Understory response to pinyon-juniper control across tree cover gradients in the Great Basin. Rangeland Ecology and Management. 67:482-494.Perkins, L.B., R.R. Blank, S.D. Ferguson, D.W. Johnson, W.C. Lindamann, and B.M. Rau. 2013. Quick start guide to soil methods for ecologists. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics. 15:237-244.Levine, C.R., R.D. Yanai, M.A. Vadeboncoeur, S.P. Hamburg, A.M. Melvin, C.L. Goodale, B.M. Rau, and D.W. Johnson. 2012. Assessing the suitability of rotary cores for sampling in rocky soils. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 76(5):1707-1718.Johnson, D.W., R.F. Walker, M. McNulty, B.M. Rau and W.W. Miller. 2012. The long-term effects of wildfire and post-fire vegetation on Sierra Nevada forest soils. Forests. 3(2):398-416.Rau, B.M., R.J. Tausch, A.L. Reiner, D.W. Johnson, J.C. Chambers, and R.R. Blank. 2012. Developing a model framework for predicting effects of woody expansion and fire on ecosystem carbon and nitrogen in a pinyon-juniper woodland. Journal of Arid Environments. 76:97-104.Johnson, D.W., Miller, W.W., Rau, B.M., Meadows, M.W. 2011. The nature and potential causes of nutrient hot spots in a Sierra Nevada forest soil. Soil Science. 176(11):596-610.Rau, B.M., Melvin, A., Johnson, D.W., Goodale, C.L., Todd, D.E., and R.R. Blank. 2011. Revisiting soil nutrient sampling: Quantitative pits vs. rotary cores. Soil Science. 176(6):273-279.Johnson, D.W., J.D. Murphy, B.M. Rau and W.W. Miller. 2011. Subsurface carbon contents: Some case studies in forest soils. Forest Science. 57(1):3-10.Johnson, D.W., C.F. Hunsaker, D.W. Glass, B.M. Rau, and B.A. Roath. 2011. Carbon and nutrient contents in soils from the King’s River experimental watershed, Sierran Nevada Mountains, California. Geoderma. 160:490-502.Rau, B.M., Johnson, D.W., Blank, R.R., Luccesi, A, Caldwell, T.G., Tausch, R.J., Roundy, B.A., and R.F. Miller. 2011. Woodland expansion’s influence on belowground carbon and nitrogen in the Great Basin U.S. Journal of Arid Environments. 75:827-835.Rau, B.M., Johnson, D.W., Blank, R.R., and A.Luccesi. 2011. Transition from sagebrush steppe to exotic annual grass (Bromus tectorum): Influence on belowground carbon and nitrogen in the intermountain U.S. Rangeland Ecology and Management. 64:139-147.Rau, B.M., Tausch, R., Reiner, A.L., Johnson, D.W., Chambers, J.C., and R.R. Blank. 2010. Influence of prescribed fire on ecosystem biomass, carbon, and nitrogen in a pinyon juniper woodland. Rangeland Ecology and Management. 63:197-202.Pierson, F.P., Williams, C., Kormos, P., Hardegee, S., Clark, P., and B.M. Rau. 2010. Hydrologic vulnerability of sagebrush steppe following pinyon and juniper encroachment. Rangeland Ecology and Management. 63:614-629.Rau, B.M., Johnson, D.W., Chambers, J.C., Blank, R.R., and A. Luccesi. 2009. Estimating root biomass and distribution after fire in a Great Basin woodland using cores and pits. Western North American Naturalist. 69(4):459-465.Rau, B.M., Johnson, D.W., Blank, R.R., and J.C. Chambers. 2009. Soil carbon and nitrogen in a Great Basin pinyon-juniper woodland; Influence of vegetation, burning, and time. Journal of Arid Environments. 73:472-479.Rau, B.M., R.R. Blank, and T. Morgan. 2008. Microsite and time since prescribed fire’s influence on soil microbiology in a Pinyon woodland. In: Kitchen, Stanley G.; Pendleton, Rosemary L.; Monaco, Thomas A.; Vernon, Jason, comps. 2008. Proceedings - Shrublands under fire: disturbance and recovery in a changing world; 2006 June 6-8; Cedar City, UT. Proceedings RMRS-P-52. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 175-178.Rau, B.M., Chambers, J.C., Blank, R.R., and D.W. Johnson. 2008. Prescribed fire, soil, and plants: Burn effects and interactions in the central Great Basin. Rangeland Ecology and Management. 61:169-181.Rau, B.M., Blank, R.R., Chambers, J.C., and D.W. Johnson. 2007. Prescribed fire in a Great Basin sagebrush ecosystem: dynamics of soil extractable nitrogen and phosphorus. Journal of Arid Environments. 71:362-375.Rau, B.M., Chambers, J.C., Blank, R.R., and W.W. Miller. 2005. Hydrologic response of a central Nevada pinyon-juniper woodland to prescribed fire. Rangeland Ecology and Management. 58(6):614-612.**Disclaimer: The views expressed in Non-USGS publications are those of the author and do not represent the views of the USGS, Department of the Interior, or the U.S. Government.
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