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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Today is the 14th. I check the calendar every today to make sure I’m not totally adrift in the space-time continuum.
Good to hear. I missed the illness report but glad things are trending well.
Rain here, today and snow in the mountains, which means Pine Valley Mountain will be dusted by tomorrow.
Unngh.
At least there’s no wind. Yet.
No snow here. I drove through some yesterday when I went to pick up my daughter from - ahem - extreme western New York. We’re supposed to get slammed mid-week.
The puppy’s stools are firming up but we still have a vet appointment today. Chicken and rice didn’t do it, which was always our go-to solution for the runs. Now she’s on boiled hamburger and rice. Maybe she’s sensitive to chicken?
I check it every today as well but I often forget where it lies in the space-time continuum.
Now, I’m going to take the trash out and then head for Wally’s.
Best wishes for a successful expedition. I may go there later.
We’re taking an intermission from Envirothon Jeopardy so Vlad can brush his teeth again. His breath could stop traffic.
Shannon just chased a squirrel.
Sounds like a plot for a Stephen King novel.
Back from the Walmart expedition. Unngh.
I can’t believe they didn’t have mincemeat! I asked one of the Walmart Shoppers if she knew where it was, and she not only didn’t know where, but she didn’t know WHAT!
Well, BLIMEY!
Mincemeat is almost $30 a bottle! What the heck???
I don’t really know what mincemeat is, either ... just that it exists.
After brushing my teeth, as an example to all, I will be off to church.
This is mincemeat.
https://www.nonesuchrecipes.com/products
It was my dad’s favorite and he’s been gone so very many years. I try to have the pie at Christmas every year in his memory. Since I was 17 when he passed, there aren’t that many memories of him. No letters, none of his books, now, (thanks to my niece and the USPS) and no one to share memories but my Real Brother, and he’s busy taking care of the “World’s Tallest Short Person.”
I don’t have any mincemeat but I do have Haggis.
I don’t intend to do anything with it. My daughter brought it to me when she visited Scotland.
So does it have meat in it, or not?
Mincemeat. Vanishing like the Model T.
I haven’t seen anything made with mincemeat since it sat on my grandparents’ Christmas dinner table sometime in the mid-1970’s.
Mom didn’t do anything with it, and it never caught on with us kids. I doubt my troops know what it is. They may not have ever heard of it.
If I recall correctly, I think my missionary great uncle and aunt were on furlough from Bolivia, and at table with us that year. I remember tales from the jungles. Great evangelists, they planted Nazarene churches in Nicaragua and Bolivia, and worked to build up indigenous pastors and denominational organizations linking them together across several South American countries.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOPKZ7_ORTk
I start talking about Shannon around 8:40 in the video and about Jesus at 9:40.
Originally, venison. This was a very long time ago, but now the closest one can get is the suet in it. And some modern recipes leave that out.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mincemeat
Yes, mincemeat is vanishing. I can tell by the ever-increasing price of the stuff. It’s an acquired taste, I think, but I recall my dad with every bite I take. The memories are good enough for me to research recipes.
I think, though, that the recipe on Wikipedia is the most authentic.
Fascinating!
I figure it won’t be long before I will have to make my own mincemeat, so I have three recipes. One from BBC cooking and two from this country. They are short, medium and long. I’d like to try the shortbread recipe for the crust, too.
Anyway, I’m off, for now.
See ya tomorrow...
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