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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See? You’re healing rapidly!
I’ve printed up all the documents and will add a note to the manager, so I can drop it in today’s mail.
Of all the places that I needed to get documentation, I think Walgreen’s is the most complicated. But it’s done, so all is well. Then all I have to do is send some prayers up and hope things fall into place!
True dat.
Kitteh says, “It’s Friday. Go away!”
Happy Friday!
Shannon is sitting in the middle of the kitchen, waiting for someone to get meat out of the refrigerator and give it to her. I’ll go pick up her thyroid pills later today.
Happy Friday!
Sorry for the delay. I was busy sorting some books, and got side-tracked from that and was sorting photos. Then I realized I was in pain and THAT told me it was time to stop and take a pain killer and here I ham.
I posted my “Special Animal Friend” comment on another website. (Rhinoceros Hornbill, suggested by Vlad.) Then, I played a card game with some kids and then read some Shakespeare.
I just went to the post orifice and then the bank, and now I’m tired. It’s very gloomy out. *sigh*
I’m going to have Pat drive me over to the vet’s for Shannon’s pills and to the bread outlet for discount bread. It’s a little sunny here.
Since it’s so gloomy, I had the baking urge (good sign, that!) but each recipe I pulled out to make, I was missing at least one ingredient, and in one case, three.
So baking and constructing something yummy to eat will have to wait until after I go to Walmart on Tuesday. Or Monday. Darnit. I really wanted to bake some chocolate chip cookies, but the brown sugar is not only hard as granite but I wonder at the quality of taste, since I know it’s over two years old. I brought it with me from Hooterville.
Well, unnngh.
That’s not what I said, exactly, but I’ll settle for it.
The rain won’t be letting up tomorrow, either, so that’s out as another baking day. *sigh*
So, since it’s time for me to take my pills and head down the hall, I’ll do just that.
See you tomorrow...
I hope you have a good evening, and wake up feeling better!
I hope you have a good night, and we’re all doing better tomorrow!
I looks like another week of rain and gloom. It’s almost enough to make my want to order my groceries, except I’d still have to drive to Walmart to pick them up. Still it may be a good idea, for the days when I just don’t feel well enough to shop. I could always order from Lin’s...
You could do that. I need to go to Walmart this weekend, mostly to get DP out of the habit of ordering from Harris Teeter. I’m officially over Covid, even though I don’t feel any different.
I was looking at a map of Utah the other day, because I was reading a book about Western outlaws. Very sparsely populated place!
Yes, Utah is sparsely populated because of the mountains, and what isn’t mountain is high desert. Or hoodoo canyons or rivers. It’s beautiful! There are so many different things to see, here. I’ll miss it. My Favorite Son knows I love the mountains, so he has promised to take me to the highest one in AR. It’s about the altitude I grew up at in Central Utah - 4000’.
I hope the rain overnight put some snow on Pine Valley Mountain. Maybe this week will have it covered. I want to take a couple more photos of it before I move, hopefully, with snow on it.
There’s been no rain here for quite a while. I’ll have to fill the bird bath. Tom the Mocker was drinking there a couple of days ago. He’s having some issues with an invasion of blue jays. It will be interesting to see where the mockers nest this year!
The sun is coming up, but it’s cooooold in here.
Wednesday!
Good morning.
I really need to get some grocks, but I don’t want to go to Walmart. I think my truck needs a tune-up.
One day this coming week, I’ll take it down to Casey’s and find out how much it will cost and how long it will take. Then maybe my trips to Walmart won’t be so stressful for me.
I’m going to go through my files this morning and shred everything that is a year old, and that should lighten the load somewhat. Some papers, I have to take with me, but others aren’t necessary and can be shredded.
I went through some books yesterday and will line them up to take photos of them to see if you want them. Maybe I’ll get that done today, or maybe not.
Rain is forecast for the next seven days. *sigh*
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