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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Cats are excellent.
One of my great nieces and her young family have just gotten a Jake kitteh, and evidently, he is all things cat. She posted a pic of him on FB yesterday and he was rolled up in a floor runner. I had a little marmalade like that and named him Mr Psycho.
Maybe a kitteh is waiting for me in Cabot. Older, though, to match my speed.
Jake has been really obnoxious recently. Probably it’s because it’s been too cold for him to stay out all night.
Yes, there is the cold. It’s a factor in all I do. Since I left Las Vegas, I don’t believe I’ve been warm a day. Nights, yes, because of the mattress pad, but days? No.
I don’t blame Jake for wanting to be in, but he has all that excess energy that would otherwise be used up outdoors, hunting.
My hands and feet are hardly ever warm. I think it’s age!
My hands have always been cold, my feet, not so much. I wore gloves with the tips cut off when I worked because the A/C had to be on full tilt for all the hugh computers we had then. Leg warmers were common, and I still have most of them. (I should wear them!!)
Some of my co-workers even had small heaters under their desks.
Of course, when I was forced to “retire” (CFIDS) I was able to sit outside with Charlie for at least an hour a day to soak up the warmth. Now, there’s no place to sit in the shade and just soak up the heat. And of course, this time of year, there IS no heat!
Happy humph day! It is a humph day for me, but not because of anyone here.
Oh. It is, humph day, isn’t it? I always considered it to be a hmph day, as it’s not quite as long. ;o]
We’re supposed to get the new back door installed today. How that turns out will determine most of what I have to say about today.
I can see how that works...
Maybe we’ll go to the library when the installer arrives. One can’t hang around there all afternoon as in normal times, but if Frank and Kathleen have new books, they can hang out in their rooms until Whenever.
All of my bills that had to be paid by the end of the year have been paid.
I’m writing if off as a success.
And that’s before the - ahem - COVID stimulus part II.
Well, last week our customer escalated to the Deputy Commissioner that they haven’t liked the performance of the project since late October. I suspect it is some kind of something to do with making a first impression but the tire tracks in my back are extremely uncomfortable, especially since they have several opportunities a week to escalate any of those issues to me for resolution.
Anyway, I’ve put in more and more hours helping our sponsor put together a response for the IT Deputy Commissioner so they can have a sit-down about it when I could have been working. And it’s not like we don’t have end-of-year deadlines I’m ignoring.
So, yes, it has been a humpf of a humpf day.
And here I am, wondering how I’m going to light a fire under someone’s backside and throw together a move in a very short span of time, if need be.
I wonder what my life would have been like if CFIDS hadn’t stolen it? Maybe I’d actually have things to be concerned about.
At any rate, I hope all of you get your individual problems worked out satisfactorily before the New Year comes calling in a few days.
The door is in place. It opens and closes, as it should.
Excellent news!
Now I can go to bed and hope I feel better tomorrow!
I hope you feel better tomorrow!
Thanks!
The night was fairly restful, and the day so far has no gray lint in it. How it will be later is a moot point, but for now, I’m happy that I can think cohesively.
The Letter will go out today.
Iz only mai tail.
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