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Geologists 'resurrect' missing tectonic plate
Phys.org ^ | 10/20/2020 | Sara Tubbs, University of Houston

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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TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: canada; catastrophism; cenozoic; continentaldrift; geology; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal; koalaoil; mantletomography; molassesmiasma; molassessmiasma; platetectonics; reunitepangea; science; stolenplates; tomography; undeadthread; undeadthreadhere; unghandmoose; uofhouston
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To: ArGee

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1,761 posted on 12/24/2020 4:45:38 AM PST by Tax-chick (O Radiant Dawn, splendor of eternal light, sun of justice, come and shine on us!)
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1,763 posted on 12/24/2020 6:13:51 AM PST by Tax-chick (O Radiant Dawn, splendor of eternal light, sun of justice, come and shine on us!)
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To: Tax-chick

Merry Christmas to you and yours !!! If I find my rifle I’m gonna pack the freezer with raindeer meat tonight.


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To: everyone; All

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1,766 posted on 12/24/2020 6:24:39 AM PST by Tax-chick (O Radiant Dawn, splendor of eternal light, sun of justice, come and shine on us!)
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If you kill it, we can cook it, even a musk ox. We have the LL Bean Fish and Game Cookbook.
1,768 posted on 12/24/2020 6:28:51 AM PST by Tax-chick (O Radiant Dawn, splendor of eternal light, sun of justice, come and shine on us!)
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To: Tax-chick

Wonderful .... meat on or off the hoof is tasty


1,769 posted on 12/24/2020 6:31:37 AM PST by no-to-illegals ( Liberals, leftists, Rinos, moslems, illegals, lamestream media. All want America to fail and die)
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Although to be honest, nobody has ever given us a musk ox.


1,770 posted on 12/24/2020 6:33:29 AM PST by Tax-chick (O Radiant Dawn, splendor of eternal light, sun of justice, come and shine on us!)
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I wonder if musk ox tastes like chicken ?


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Merry Christmas and a Hug !!! Moved ?


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‘Face has not yet moved. She may not reply, because she’s been poorly the last couple of days.


1,773 posted on 12/24/2020 6:47:36 AM PST by Tax-chick (O Radiant Dawn, splendor of eternal light, sun of justice, come and shine on us!)
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I’m praying, too, that my FRiend will feel better soon. It’s very cold out in Utah; that makes things extra hard.


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And a happy ending to 2020, finally!

1,776 posted on 12/24/2020 1:07:15 PM PST by NicknamedBob (If you can't do something well, you won't do anything good.)
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And they all lived happily ever after!


1,777 posted on 12/24/2020 1:11:03 PM PST by Tax-chick (O Radiant Dawn, splendor of eternal light, sun of justice, come and shine on us!)
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To: Tax-chick

My previous 2020 vision was nothing like this!


1,778 posted on 12/24/2020 1:50:01 PM PST by NicknamedBob (If you can't do something well, you won't do anything good.)
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To: NicknamedBob

I’ve worn glasses since I was 12.


1,779 posted on 12/24/2020 1:57:00 PM PST by Tax-chick (O Radiant Dawn, splendor of eternal light, sun of justice, come and shine on us!)
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Moi aussi.

But I had 20/20 vision in my right eye for a while after cataract surgery. I need a tuneup now.


1,780 posted on 12/24/2020 2:02:17 PM PST by NicknamedBob (If you can't do something well, you won't do anything good.)
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