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 imagessimilar 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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You will deserve a bottle of champagne! You’ve worked hard to make this happen!
It must be Tuesday. Happy Tuesday.
I have been through many, many terrifying Driving Adventures.
Not much line at the DMV. He may be done before I have my WW meeting.
It is Tuesday. I hope it’s nice for you!
It IS Tuesday, but no one told the Walmartians!
We stood out there in the cold Walmart Wind again for almost 10 minutes. I was cold before I got there and I had to almost run through the store before I could warm up.
I’m glad to be home!
Any day but Monday or Friday are good days to go to the DMV. I prefer Wednesday or Thursday, but of course, never, ever in this week of this month! ;o]
I bought a bottle of Clean Shower and one of Ivory liquid and the checker put them in the same bag with a bottle of chocolate syrup.
Howzat for Walmart Cashier Training?
Well, freep. The reason there was no line is that you need to have an appointment, and the earliest available appointments are in January.
Unnngh.
I just got off the phone with our auto insurer, explaining why we don’t need Patrick on the policy today after all. The girl, who lives in SC, laughed loudly when I explained that I don’t want Governor Cooper to get sick and die: I just want him to wake up tomorrow and say, “Being Governor is no fun!” and take his ill-gotten gains and have a nice life in Tahiti.
I feel like making a Statement. If a person says, “Stay safe!” and I say, “Thank you. I don’t want to be safe. I want to have a life,” is that rude?
Oh, cusswords and shuckydarn. January? They don’t have anything in place to check this blatant inefficiency? GAH!
I think it’s a perfectly logical, sane comment, and I think more and more people are beginning to feel that way.
I like that statement so much I want to steal it for a Facebook meme without using your name. Only with permission, of course! :o]
Oh, absolutely, you can crib anything I say and use it without attribution.
I remembered my WW meeting before it was over and got to see my friends. Now I suppose I should do some food prep. We can go to the library in conjunction with taking Pat to work.
I have to admit, though, that our auto insurer as a financial interest in our “staying safe,” at least from auto-related disasters.
Done! It make make some tongues wag before the day is over!
I’m trying to decide if I’m tired enough to take a nap or not.
Probably not. Probably, I’ll get up from here in a bit and clean the cages.
My face feels gritty and puffy, no doubt from being awake for so long, but I’ll muddle through! Life is but a dream. Someone said.
Merrily, merrily ...
I need to get Pat’s and James’s sheets into the laundry.
I managed a 90 minute nap but I don’t know that I feel any better. Maybe by the time 1900 rolls around, it will be my real bedtime. I hope the wind dies down a bit. I love the sound of the chimes, but not while I’m trying to sleep!! ;o]
I had some loud chimes taken down outside at one point.
I had a nap with Jake. Next, I really need to start peeling sweet potatoes.
My bedroom is on the other side of the building, and there is another bedroom between me and the chimes. Rocky has three sets of her own chimes, but mine are the loudest, and I told her if they got too loud, I’d take them down. If they’re that loud when I’m so far removed from them, there is no way I will hang them by the back door!
I forgot to put the little loaf pans on my list and as a result, I bought all these supplies for Christmas Spice Cake/Grandma Hansen’s Fruitcake with nothing to pour the batter in. I’ll go to Lin’s at 0600 tomorrow and see if they have some. (I’m SO glad I kept my Tupperware BIG salad bowl!! It’s perfect for big batches.) If no luck there, I’ll try Dollar Tree. They open at 0800 until after Christmas, so that’s a bonus.
I have my biggest pot full of boiling sweet potatoes. I think there are more in the pantry, though.
I may have a can of sweet potatoes in the pantry, but I’ll put them on my list for tomorrow if I can’t find it.
I may or may not eat them Thursday, but may wait until Christmas. Depends on how I feel. Sometimes, the holidays get the better of me, and it seems the older I get the worse it gets. Most times, I’m OK being alone.
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