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.
(Excerpt) Read more at phys.org ...
In my next box to the Tax-chick Nest, I will include some Lego odds and ends and bits and pieces. A grab-bag, if you will.
I thought for sure I sent you a book when I sent the last box, but I ran across it this morning, complete with bookmark...Both of which will go into the box with the Legos.
The neighbor Tom, with the dog Jasper, was moved into hospice this weekend. He does NOT look good, and I doubt he will be coming back. No clue on what will happen to Jasper-the-Schnauzer. (Sometimes, I hate living in “Senior Housing.”)
Somebody shipped me a box of loose Legos once. When I opened the box, they had assembled themselves into a Lego grandfather clock.
LOL!
Very good, Bob!! And clever!
Patrick bought some kind of Star Wars spaceship. Not sure about James.
I need clear instructions to build anything with Legos. But oh! The fun I have! :o])
Do not argue with the tail!
Maine coon sez it’s time to adore the tail!
Good morning. the pills have been sorted, and the clothes are ready to be folded, but I will have to do some damage control on my stomach. I probably need to get that letter ready...
I get physical symptoms when I have something “unaccomplished,” too. Getting old is not for the weak, as my mom says.
Good morning. Jake is under the Christmas tree, looking for trouble.
Good morning. Happy Tuesday.
Sorry about missing the day yesterday. Due to weather in - ahem - extreme west NY I had to delay driving my daughter back by a day so I was on the road yesterday.
While gone the puppy’s case of the runs got worse again and she “oopsied” in her bed about 3am. Mrs. ArGee wants to know why these things happen while I’m away. Anyway, it’s back to the vet since we’ve been dealing with this one way or another all month.
On the plus side, still no seizures. So we have some good heading into 2021.
Happy Tuesday to you, ArGee.
Your delay in posting was noted, but concern hadn’t been raised, as yet. Had it gone another day and we may have threatened to send out the Militia.
I’m sorry to hear about the puppy and her Rocky Mountain Two-Step (Eastern Variety) and that she kept Mrs ArGee up. It doesn’t sound to me that all is well with the puppy, and that’s said as close to a puppy standpoint as I can get without being one. I hope this is just something that she’ll grow out of, but for now, I’ll keep all of you in my prayers.
Good about no seizure, bad about incontinence.
Thanks for the puppy prayers. I’m thinking she’s developed a sensitivity to the flavor of her dog food. Mrs. ArGee wants the vet to declare the bacteria gone and then we’ll start changing food.
I’m saying this because after being put back on hamburger and rice yesterday things are improving without having seen the vet yet.
Prayers are what I do best, and even puppies need them.
It would seem the diet is the best place to make changes so here’s hoping it works.
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'Twas the year before Christmas, when all through the land
Not a creature was stirring ... since travel was banned
The masking and zooming and shopping online
Became norms with the washing of hands. All. The. Time.
Workers worked from their kitchens, students learned on their beds.
Worship gathering - abandoned; it was virtual instead.
Life was canceled, it seemed, social-distancing reigned,
Yet the death count continued and even made gains.
Confusion, corruption, divisions, elections,
Promises, protests, prophetic projections.
The people were stressing, isolating in fear.
Depression was common as winter drew near.
But through the pandemic and panic and pain
A thought was emerging in some human brains.
It came to the young, and it came to the old.
It began as a whisper, then started to grow.
When up in the sky a bright start did appear
As if God was shouting, "I'm here! I am here!"
"I'm seeing the world and its chaos and mess
I'm aware people think that I don't know what's best.
"They've resisted My Guidance, Direction, and Teaching
Established their gospel, and ethics, and preaching.
"It started with those who don't have any clue,
And expanded to ones who should know what is True.
"Yet it's never too late to turn back and obey
The earth will be healed if they follow My Way.
"Christmas is coming, it can't be erased.
My Light shines its Power into every dark place."
So as year 2020 wraps up and is done,
Let's enter - with wisdom - year 2021.
Seek Him who will one day set all things aright.
"Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night."
THAT! Is beautiful! Thank your wife for me, please, and I will pass it on with anonymity, because I really don’t know who she is! Thank her for me, please. ;o])
Very nice, thanks!
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Good morning. I got up for cats.
Kitteh sez it’s time to play before coffee!
Good morning.
It’s been slow going this morning, due to chest pains during the night. Thankfully, I had enough presence of mind to cough and readjust the heart rhythm. It explains the intense fatigue and the nausea, as well. But all is well this morning.
I have to go out and bring the water in, but it’s far too cold to do that at the moment, being a chilly 21°. I’ll wait until the sun is over the yardarm.
Maybe I’ll actually get something done today. Maybe.
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