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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That reminds me, I was going to make more cornbread.
w00t!
I’m waiting for the mixer so I can make cornbread from scratch. And other things as well.
In my head, I’ve packed another couple of boxes today. I just wish I felt good enough to actually do it.
Thanks! But darnit. I didn’t see it until you mentioned it.
I’ll do it after the DMV ... or maybe I’ll walk a boy or two through the process so they can do it themselves another time.
You mean the cornbread thing? I used to have a very good recipe for it, but it got lost.
It happens because I move so often... :o|
Yes, the cornbread. Back from the DMV with the license achieved, at last.
Congratulations, Pat!!
The bread smells delicious, but doesn’t look all that great. I hope it tastes as good as it smells and then I’ll be very happy.
Taste is what matters.
I think we’ll wait until after nap before we make cornbread. I’m feeling better than this morning, though.
Nope it didn’t taste as good as it smelled. In fact, the flour was off so I pitched not only the bread (the texture was luscious) but the flour as well. I’ll have to see if Walmart has it on Monday, and if not, I’ll check with Lin’s on my way home. Or maybe tomorrow. Anyway, I’m sorry it was such a flop. My mouth really wanted some homemade bread with butter and not-too-marmalade.
Bummer.
That should have been “not-too-sweet marmalade.” My braines.
I deduced it from context. Now I’m seriously going to nap.
I couldn’t even do that.
I just spent a few minutes on Bookface. I couldn’t stand it. All my liberal “friends” have suddenly decided to post “neener, neener” responses to some political posts I made a few days ago. Those poor folks aren’t even worth responding to. So deluded in their ignorance.
Dear Pat,
That little card you now possess doesn’t really represent freedom. It represents one more thing your mother can ask you to do for her. NOTE: You will have your freedom soon enough. A couple of years of driving places for the family is little to ask in return for raising you to this age. So just grin and say, “Sure, Mom.” Then grab the keys and go. The day will come when you’ll wish the worst interruption in your day was your mom asking you to drive somewhere.
Sincerely,
One who’s been there.
Your friends are one thing. The national leaders who are abetting the complete re-writing of the last few days of history just to save their political hides have raised my blood pressure significantly.
I am surprised I’m so surprised at how far our civilization has fallen so fast.
And that’s before I figure out what $1,420 per six months comes to on a weekly basis.
I saw this coming maybe two years ago and tried to tell people but only very few heard me. Even fewer were in a position to do something about it. So I sat here and hopelessly waited for this day, knowing that CFIDS was preventing me from emailing those who WERE in positions to do something about it, and worse, preventing me from taking an active, physical part in rallies that garnered signatures.
I believe there is no hopelessness worse than seeing the train coming at full speed and knowing you can’t move your disability off the track in time.
So, because I’m so politically vocal on Bookface, where I was hoping to open some eyes, I’m now expecting to be “censored” permanently. Which means most of my family will have to follow me to MeWe or hope another family member will share my phone number so we can keep in contact.
I’m just trying very hard not to see what’s coming my way... I need to get get to AR. Period. Before my travel is restricted. Communism is here.
Vlad is working on the cornbread. We’re using a flat pan instead of the muffin tins and multiplying the package recipe by 1-1/3, because that’s how much cornmeal mix was left.
The cornbread turned out pretty well. I’m not 100% sure it’s cooked all the way through, but we’ll find out when it’s cool. At least it didn’t set the fire alarm off.
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