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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Maybe it will work out better than you expect.
We’re taking down Christmas decorations and repacking the camping boxes (into new and better boxes!), but that will all have to change to getting ready for church pretty soon.
All young brothers have been spotted and verified to not be sick.
At the moment, I don’t think it’s going to have too much effect on my sleeping tonight. The only thing that is better is the light-headedness/dizziness is gone. The fatigue is still here.
I couldn’t find the link to the Zoom so I won’t be watching Sacrament meeting.
Tomorrow, I’ll try to pack the file cabinet into the plastic banker’s boxes. Also, I’ll need to get another plastic storage tub at Walmart (not to be confused with the file box) and hopefully I won’t be buying either again.
Tired or not, I will have to force myself to pack this week.
I hope you’re feeling a little better now that it’s noonish.
Pack just a little bit!
That’s funny, Nully!
Not much. I had a small Pepsi and that eased some of the nausea, but I’m very tired, so I’ll be going to bed, soon.
I’ll have to go to Walmart tomorrow, and then maybe on Tuesday I can pack some things. In my head, I have several boxes packed anyway, so making them real shouldn’t be too hard. I hope.
We’ll see. Maybe tomorrow will bring more incentive to pack.
See ya tomorrow!
Cute! I like the wine store best, too.
How are you and your mother feeling?
Pretty good. Quarantine is over today.
Glad to hear it.
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Who-ee! That looks like a mini-Jake!
Good morning.
The laundry room/clubhouse was frigid this morning. The knob on the thermostat for the community room has been removed so even though I’ve asked about it, the answer is silence. So I was very cold. However, knowing its going to be cold (the lows have been around 25° consistently for the last six or eight weeks) I’ve started taking a lighter jacket with me so I can at least work word puzzles with slightly warm hands.
One of the top-loading machines is down from the coin receptacle being stuck, so I had to use the front-loading machine. It’s 50¢ more per load. It used to give us a choice of a shorter load but the max would still be $1.75, just 25¢ more than the other two washers. I suspect the cost will be going up to $1.75 on them, now.
Anyway, I survived to wash another day.
I don’t think I’ll be going to Walmart until tomorrow. But I may be able to pack something if I can do it sitting down. We’ll see how I feel after I hang the clothes. :o|
Unnngh. If it’s not one thing another, huh?
I wish I could buy you a house and a staff to do your laundry!
Thanks!
I’d settle for a manufactured home with a washer and dryer! Some place where I don’t have to listen to dogs barking under my bedroom window.
The places should be fairly cheap in AR...hmmm...They have the same kind of program there that is available here. Small down, income-based. I DO have the application for it, sent to me by mistake. So, I wonder, once I get settled, if it would do any good to apply?
I expect if you lived a trailer park in AR, you’d have barking dogs, meth labs, and zot knows what going on in the laundry room.
Good morning. Happy Monday!
Another week is on the way, kitteh. Try to stay out of its way.
The ones I’m thinking of are under the control of the USDA and aren’t trailers. They’re actually houses, fairly new, probably no less than two bedrooms, but I’d have to check on them to see what the mortgage would be. I can do that once I get there. There are too many other things to take care of, first.
It it was a trailer park, there would be hook-ups in the homes for washers and dryers. I’d settle for an RV if I could find one in a senior park.
Happy good Monday morning!
The weeks seem to be rather ravenous, so far this year.
“Senior Park” still leaves you with the barking dog issue, though. People just seem to think everyone loves listening to their dogs bark.
In a better world, people wouldn’t get a dog if they couldn’t keep it from being a nuisance to everyone around them.
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