Posted on 10/20/2020 9:33:20 PM PDT by BenLurkin
A team of geologists at the University of Houston College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics believes they have found the lost plate in northern Canada by using existing mantle tomography images—similar to a CT scan of the earth's interior. The findings, published in Geological Society of America Bulletin, could help geologists better predict volcanic hazards as well as mineral and hydrocarbon deposits.
"Volcanoes form at plate boundaries, and the more plates you have, the more volcanoes you have," said Jonny Wu, assistant professor of geology in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. "Volcanoes also affect climate change. So, when you are trying to model the earth and understand how climate has changed since time, you really want to know how many volcanoes there have been on earth."
Wu and Spencer Fuston, a third-year geology doctoral student, applied a technique developed by the UH Center for Tectonics and Tomography called slab unfolding to reconstruct what tectonic plates in the Pacific Ocean looked like during the early Cenozoic Era. The rigid outermost shell of Earth, or lithosphere, is broken into tectonic plates and geologists have always known there were two plates in the Pacific Ocean at that time called Kula and Farallon. But there has been discussion about a potential third plate, Resurrection, having formed a special type of volcanic belt along Alaska and Washington State.
Using 3-D mapping technology, Fuston applied the slab unfolding technique to the mantle tomography images to pull out the subducted plates before unfolding and stretching them to their original shapes.
(Excerpt) Read more at phys.org ...
Vlad won a game of Wingspan, finally, with the family’s new high score of 100. I couldn’t see what was happening on his side of the table ... but it doesn’t matter. It’s not a game in which what one player does has a big effect on other players.
Hey, I got your card and I was tickled.
Monday my pastor surprised me at the last minute (I mean, literally 90 seconds before Mass) by asking me, beinst it’s a special Mary feast, to lead in singing the “Ordinaries”
Well, Mrs. Flexibility here, I hadn’t practiced or prepared, haven’t sung Ordinaries since early March and didn’t have my music with me, but I did it with a right good will.
Looking out at the little 8:30 Holy Day of No Longer an Obligation congregation — about 24 people scattered at alienating distances across the pews in the nave— -looking dispirited like a Biden Rally— I don’t think anyone was singing but me. Felt sad, really.
But leaving Church, an old lady (defined as: older than I am) said something incomprehensible, and I looked at her expressing perplexity with my eyes I guess, so she dropped her mask to her chin and said, “You have a lovely voice.”
Made my day.
Love you and all your chickadees, Tax chiquita.
Sigue cantando.
So pleased to hear from you!
Our music director sang some hymns on Tuesday, but not the Ordinario, because we’ll get in trouble if any of the congregation sings along. We do it all at the Spanish Mass, anyway, and old Don Fabio does a little finger-wagging if the people are singing loudly enough to be heard on the streaming vid.
Happy Guadalupe, and may we all be back in Real Life soon!
If there’s a bright side, Nully, you’ll find it!
But seriesly, folks, I have to agree with the cartoon. ;o])
The bright side is they’ll be able to vote democrat for the next hunert years!
Yepper. They’ll be programmed for generations.
Happy Thorsday. It's a bunny!
It must be Thor’s Bunneh.
Good morning.
I knew some people in Vegas who had a rather large bunny about the same size as that one. It was a house pet but they let him out in the back yard (fenced) when they were outside.
Since my right knee woke me up last night, and kept me up for three hours, I was on the verge of taking a nap where I sit. Instead, I’m going to go in and take a nap where it’s warm.
See ya in a bit!
Enjoy the warm nap. Maybe you’ll dream of giant bunnehs.
Thanks!
It was too quick, but at least I’m not falling over. I probably could have slept another hour, but where’s the fun in that? At least this way, I might be able to sleep tonight.
The extra bunnity was pretty cool! Thanks! :o])
The bunneh looks cuddly, but I expect it’s not.
I just set a timer, and when it goes off, I will roust the Youth Participant out of the shower. If the water bill isn’t back to normal next month, Much Woe Betide!
One thing I learned about “pet” bunnehs is that they have sharp claws that need to be trimmed. Also, their teeth are sharp enough to cut your finger off.
Good idea, the timer! The Navy Shower is what is needed. I think I spend 10 minutes max in the shower.
I don’t shower as often as the boys, because I’m not as reeky.
I shower every other day because any more often and it dries out my skin too much, even with a very good organic lotion. And I seldom do as much work with as much energy as I used to. I used to shower daily, but that was before CFIDS. Then, for the first couple of years, a shower was more of a physical effort than I could perform, after which, I had to lie down.
Thanks to supplements most of that is gone. Well, at least enough to where I can semi-function almost every day.
Well ok then....
While we wait for the Earth to kill us all, here's a bunny and a kitten.
Good morning. Happy Friday Eve!
I guess teh bunneh’s preferred pronoun is kitteh?
If the kitteh identifies as a bunneh ... well, a dog would chase them both.
Happy Thorsday. The sun is shining here.
I think we all know how dangerous a rabbit can be. Monty Python showed us all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnOdAT6H94s&bpctr=1607617519
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