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.
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Make a fruitcake! I’ll send the recipe! If its on the interwebs, anyone can use it!
I thought I had a recipe close to it, but I’m darned if I can find it! GR-r-r-r-r!
W00t!
Lookee, ArGee: ‘Face didn’t take the first 000! ;o]
Governors cannot cancel a federal holiday, so what people do on Thanksgiving is no one’s business.
Great flag!!!
I found my own fruitcake recipe in the Slave, and it makes a much smaller batch, but seems to have more flavorful ingredients. One uses cocoa and water in the recipe and the other uses either orange or pineapple juice.
Hmmm... Decisions, decisions. I may have to make them both — one now and the other one at Christmas.
I think, though, that I need to start finding all my recipes and put them in the same folder, if I can remember how...
...although “COME AND GET IT” might have worked a little better!
Got to the background, right click, select “new folder”. Easy-peasy...
Oh! Golly! Thanks! I forgot everything I knew and lost my notes. The were good notes, too. All “shorthand.” My shorthand, of course. But darn, they were good notes!
The pain in the neck part is retyping every. single. recipe. by hand.
If you’ve got an ‘all in one’ printer you can scan in paper documents, and of course anything already typed up can just be moved to the new folder.
It will give you something to do until the end of the next presidential term...
Only after everyone has had firsts!
I couldn’t even find this recipe in my hand-written file, which is where it was for the longest time — since probably 1980. So I was panicking. I’ve transferred a lot of my favorite recipes to the slave, but just because I kept having to re-do them onto clean cards. It got tiresome after the 5th time or so.
I have a few recipes that I don’t want to give up, like pineapple cookies and butter cake, and chicken quesedillas, and easy lasagna... Well, you get the idea. Those are already in the slave, but when I couldn’t find the hard copy, I wasn’t even sure what to look for: Christmas cake? Fruitless cake? Fruitcake? Spice cake? It was under Christmas Spice Cake! (You want the recipe? Now that I’ve found it, I can email it, it you want.)
Trust me: I have PLENTY to keep me busy until the end of the next presidential term!
My printer is an Epson WF-3640 with two paper trays. It does everything but salute.
I kept wondering why you hadn’t posted yet today, and just now, I realized it’s because I didn’t look. *blush* My bad.
Good Monday morning, ArGee. I don’t know if we’ll have snow but the Admiral and the barometer both say there is an awful change coming. Just in time for Thanksgiving.
Shopping will be fun tomorrow. Not.
How did Puppy fare over the weekend? Any more sign of seizure?
The nice thing is you can search your whole hard drive or any folder for Christmas cake, fruitless cake, fruitcake, spice cake or Christmas spice cake with just a few keystrokes.
Much quicker than wading through boxes of paper!
That unfolded Farallon plate hot spot is right under the Wisconsin shield. One of the few areas that was glacier free during the past few ice ages...
...Cesar is a fine name for a epileptic dog!
Ain’t that a FACT? So yeah, I need to put them all in the same file... I don’t know what I’d do without the slave, though, as it allows me to add everything! Personal histories, letters, genealogy, photos, recipes...
I just need to get busy and organize everything in folders instead of having them in there willy-nilly. So thanks again!
*groan*
Finder will search every document on the computer for whatever words you give it.
Or you can limit Finder to searching a specific folder with all of its subfolders.
Me? I usually let it search the whole danged 'puter, as I really need it more when something got dropped into the wrong folder!
That's how I found it, but it took several tries. If it had been in a folder marked "Recipes," I coulda done it in two shakes of a lamb's tail!
I just had to make sure it was searching all the files, and not just the laptop.
w00t!
Puppy didn’t seize anything so all good there. We thought she was maturing, but maybe it was the drug that we think might have caused the seizure since she started reverting this weekend.
Maybe good news and bad news in one.
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