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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Want some snow?
The library never has bookmarks until the library volunteers go through all the books on the shelf and pull them out. Then people lose their places and they’re upset.
It’s getting colder here, too.
Nap with Jake accomplished, I was going to make cornbread muffins, but we don’t have any cornmeal. Bill the Son must have tossed it when he cleaned the pantry at Christmas. It was probably several years old.
I return books with the markers still in them sometimes. Our library has a little holder near the circulation desk for random stuff that turns up.
The gingerbread house at Washington County, UT, was really impressive.
Last year, Pine Valley Mountain had a lot of snow, but this year, it looks wintry and bare. So yes, snow would be nice, thank you! :o])
I have a box of honey cornbread muffin mix, and I’m excited to make it up into some yummy cornbread. Without my hands hurting.
My iHerb order finally showed up yesterday at 1600. No. Comment.
We need a few other things at Walmart today, as well.
Good morning.
Good morning.
I’ve been researching meditation. I think I have the basics, and downloaded a few short books on the meatier aspects of it, but I think I need to get into it. I bought a book on it years ago, and on one of my Favorite Daughter’s rare visits (at the time) she saw it and asked to “borrow” it. There is no such word in her vocabulary, I’ve learned. So I printed out a nine-page basic, get-started booklet and downloaded four others that were a little more complex, according to PDF length. It may help to clam my basic CFIDS mind when it gets to the “the sky is falling!” stage of panic/anxiety. What have I got to lose?
My body actually let me sleep for eight hours, then an additional hour and 10 minutes. Scary. Good. Solid. Sleep. Now all I have to do is keep it up. ;o]
I was going to get a haircut today, being obedient to the stylist’s admonitions two months ago, but I ran out of money at Walmart yesterday. Again. So. Embarrassing.
Another wonderful morning floof!
The shower has been had, so I’m going to listen to an uplifting talk, and then at around 0830, I’ll take a drive to the pain clinic to see if I can get another prescription. SUCH a pain in the neck at my age. GAH!
Still nothing from AR...
Good morning. This kitten is another from yesterday’s batch.
Regarding meditation, I agree, it can’t hurt. The brain has a lot of impact on the body!
Happy Wednesday. Off to another day of the races. I am with kitteh - close your eyes and pretend it’s not here.
Two paradoxes in two posts.
Meditation causing anxiety. (I don’t think you said that one but it came to mind.)
Getting pain medicines being a pain.
You’re on a roll.
I don't want it unless it has poppy seeds. ;o]
I’ve thought of meditation on and off for years, but with the last year being what it was, the idea has kept coming back. So this morning, I decided it was time to do it. Maybe I should have done it 20 years ago, but I probably couldn’t have done it, since my attention span with CFIDS is about 1/4” long.
It’s not much longer now, but some things are coming together and that means I need to be a little more focused.
Best wishes at the races!
I’m going to put more warm clothes on and go to Walmart soon.
They’re only paradoxes if you don’t have a CFIDS-infected brain. But yeah, in hindsight, paradoxes. ;o])
I will have to put warm clothes on soon, to go to Great Clips and the pain clinic. I bought the coat I have probably five years ago, thinking it would fit, but it didn’t. It was too nice to send back because they didn’t have larger sizes, anyway, so I kept it.
Last year it fit, but not well enough to close the zipper all the way. This year, it fits with room to spare! So I’m mostly warm when I go out, though until Rocky was so kind to think of me and my early morning outings, my hands and ears were very cold.
I have to make sure my hands are warm before I put them into the gloves, though!
Walmart was weirdly out of regular cornmeal. I had to get self-rising cornmeal mix. That means I’ll have to use the recipe on the package instead of the usual one from “Farm Journal’s Homemade Bread” cookbook.
We read some “Henry V” and then watched a scene from the Kenneth Branagh movie on Youtube. I’d forgotten how good he was in that. Also in “Much Ado About Nothing.”
Good morning. How a you and your mother doing?
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