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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: NicknamedBob

Well, 2021 vision isn’t bad.

Tom won Scrabble.
Frank won “Evolution: The Beginning”
Everyone died in “Oregon Trail.”

I will soon need to go pick up Pat from work.


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May the New Year bring us much better things!

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Merry Christmas and a blessed Yule!


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"Merry Christmas and a blessed Yule!"

Least favorite Christmas song this year, I'll Be Home for Christmas.

1,790 posted on 12/25/2020 10:43:30 AM PST by NicknamedBob (If you can't do something well, you won't do anything good.)
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I live at home, so it’s good.

Gud Yul!


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To: NicknamedBob

Merry Christmas Bob. May our next year be happy


1,793 posted on 12/25/2020 1:31:37 PM PST by no-to-illegals ( Liberals, leftists, Rinos, moslems, illegals, lamestream media. All want America to fail and die)
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Merry Christmas Face


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Oregno Trail?
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(”How old was it?”, the chorus responded.)

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1,795 posted on 12/25/2020 3:10:05 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE ( I can only donate monthly, but the radical ABCNNBCBS does it every hour on their news.)
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It was so old that the game could not be played when the PC graphics got faster than the game processor could “think”.

Oh, I thought you were going to say it was so old they didn't know how the battle turned out.

1,796 posted on 12/25/2020 3:56:28 PM PST by NicknamedBob (If you can't do something well, you won't do anything good.)
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To: Robert A Cook PE

Card game based on the computer game.


1,797 posted on 12/25/2020 4:22:13 PM PST by Tax-chick (O Radiant Dawn, splendor of eternal light, sun of justice, come and shine on us!)
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Merry Christmas, Anti-Claus didn’t get me this year!


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Something fun to look at, if you like history!


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Happy Boxing Day!

‘Face

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