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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Yes, but then, I think you’ll find that all moms, especially those with Time In Grade, have Opinions! :o])
Physical Therapist = enhanced interrogation technician.
Lol
Dr Darks is in.
Wales is locking down for a 17day joyride to insanity.
Actually, I think they don’t expect different. They get upset if we expect different when they don’t feel well. But they tend to take life as it comes.
To be fair, the most amazing part of the Dentist training is how they can be talking to you like they're the most wonderful people in the world while making your eyeballs want to crawl back into the back of your head.
My mom used to take vacations after vacationing with us kids.
Yours would never work, HK. There’s too much in there that’s decipherable.
But you’re probably onto something. With a little more obfuscation and a few useless aphorisms it could work.
Stuff like, “You know this will work because birds are ONE with nature.”
All these second-round lockdowns mean is that they didn’t get the properly subservient populace they were looking for the first time.
By next summer they’ll be locking down for a wholly different reason.
30 days to slow the carbon emissions!!!
The emissions thing has already been spoken about. So just a matter of time. Baa. Baa.!
“So, who are your associates?”
*rotate lower leg, crunching noises*
I could hear that as I read it..
:)
The fun ones are back exercises with scar tissue involved.
Subject will sell out everyone to get the pain to stop.
Awww...
And I had such high hopes, too.
“’Cuz an ant can’t move a rubber tree plant...”
Thanks for the ear worm...
Howdy! Nice campout. Rained this morning starting about 3:00, but I had gone to the bathroom at 2:00, so we were fine. Also, before we went to bed, I loaded up everything other than our tent, bedding, and clothes, so we packed out in the rain pretty easily.
Showered, breakfasted, coffee!, and the wash is in the dryer already. “Are my long pants clean?” asked Pat upon emerging from his bed of repose. “No, none of you seems to have done laundry all weekend, so they’re in the basket where you left them. They can go in the next load in 17 minutes.”
Twerp. At least DP took the Student Driver on an excursion yesterday.
"Mai name iz Pheobe. I hatez yu."
High, they’re!
We’re supposed to have rain, cold and all kinds of stuff and I suspect tomorrow will be a very cold drive into the “city” for the appointment. Not to mention even colder when I go to wash clothes in the wee small hours because the wind will be blowing “between 30 and 40 mph.” That should make the wind chill delightful.
I said for years that my kids had their roles reversed: Favorite Son could have a meal on the table when he was 14, sort and start the laundry, do the housework, etc., and Favorite Daughter couldn’t seem to get out of bed.
Right now, it’s just cold and the sun is trying to come up over the crest of the butte, but no wind or clouds, yet. Since it’s been quite a long time with no rainfall, any change in the weather will be welcome. Sorta.
I have another load of stuff for the thrift store, but I want to add to it before I load it into the truck.
Some things got done yesterday, though I realized this morning that in addition to the CFIDS, the ADHD is active. It seems the older I get the worse it becomes. I had about 25 — 30 years where it was fairly mild, but now, my brain feels like it did when I was a kid. My maternal grandmother had it, and now, about 85% of her descendants have it. It’s a terrible thing to “share.”
Awww...! A floofy hater!
That’s OK...it was lonely here this weekend! I’ll take a floofy hater! ;o]
But the use of “climate change” in that context is more or less correct. Plenty of historical geology examples, real physical data not computer simulations off proxy data.
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