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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I have a copy of the newspaper article that was written when said late sister finished with the indexing, but it’s buried so I don’t know when it was completed. Now I’m curious... ;o]
Good Moaning ArGee.
The Sun has reappeared....now for the damp mist.
We may get a full set within the hour....Sun, rain,wind, hail, mist.
Nope,just checked, the pressure is too high for mist.
They did not think of walking up to the drive-through microphone to order, then walking around to the window. I don’t know whether it would have worked. Maybe their dad will get a little time later today to go get them some things. The van is too big for it.
Good luck on your Toyota bits.
I’m sorry about your rainy weather, but you are on an island, I believe... ;o]
Happy Odin’s Day, ArGee!
One of my great nieces just gave her four year old daughter a kitten, and I remind the adult niece that cats have staff while dogs have people.
They’ve never had pets before, so...
Yes, it would seem the Leftists is the country are the only people in this world who don’t recognize the great things Trump has done and is doing to help drain the Swamp that is the current state of being in the halls of the house and senate.
Did you just say what I think you said?
Groan!
Well played.
An Island????
A continent in disguise.
Put here to keep an eye on Europe.
I just cut up some pills. I bought a pill cutter in Henderson several years ago, paying maybe $6 for it, and it sometimes worked and actually cut the pills, but for the most part all it did was pretend to cut them so mostly what showed up was broken pieces of uneven sizes.
Which is OK, because sometimes, the pain is too much for one pill but two pills is an overdose, and the uneven sizes allowed me to determine how much I needed for the pain I was having.
One day recently, I was at Dollar Tree and found a pill cutter. Not expecting much from it at a dollar (I love their tissue packs!) I was very pleasantly surprised to find that it cut the pills consistently and cleanly every time! So I tossed the expensive pill cutter. That was one design that had been over-thought in the extreme!
LOL! Good idea!! A miniature continent, then...
And FYI, the Dollar Tree, one of my very favorite stores, is a Canadian-owned company. It has some things in it that seem to baffle the minds of designers in the States because they’re too simple. Which is often exactly what’s needed!
Well, yes, I did, actually. Either my mother’s famously “unconscious” humor is rubbing of on me, or your punny adeptness is. (I can’t believe I said that and didn’t mean to say it!)
*tagline*
I take mine whole. We’re heading out in a few minutes, since it’s not pouring rain.
Morphine and niacin are the two that I cut in half. The first because sometimes, I need more than one, but two would be too much and niacin because even at 50 mg., I don’t like the feeling of being flushed.
I’m heading out in a few minutes, as well. I’m sure you’ll be back before I am.
Safe journey!
Nice suit.
Hello! We had a nice time at the cemetery but got quite wet. I need to make some phone calls for church after dinner. Maybe Tom will come by and get his birthday card from his grandmother. He texted me some geology jokes this morning: bored in class, I think.
Hello, yourself!
Unngh. Kate is not a good driver, and once again, I felt very depressed when I went into her house. She is putting an enormous amount of energy into things like molding, paint (all blues) and organizing a massive amount of books she’ll never use. There is one seven-shelf bookcase filled with cook books.
Anyway, a little cleaning in the areas that are seen by visitors would go a long way into making the place feel comfortable.
I paid for the doctor visit online, but there was no record of it, so I paid again, and of course, that cut into my spending at the thrift store. BUT!! I got a spring outfit in a skinny size, with a beautiful pale coral color skirt and a darker blazer (Eddie Bauer, $8) with a lacy top that almost perfectly matches the skirt, as well as a white blouse that has a gorgeous “piping” design on the front.
I couldn’t find shoes and a bag to match, though there was a bag I almost bought — it was fraying at the handle, so I passed it by. I found a pair of open-toed, sling back shoes, black with a small bow and white trim. Very classy! It was worth the stop at the store for sure!!
No Burger King, though. Just straight home. Since we went in her car, I had to stop and get mine, but she gave me a very nice wind chime that is hanging by the back door, and a small toaster. Her place has so many wind chimes!
Oh. Yes. The doctor says I’m doing fine (of course) and to come back in six months.
Good morning. Congratulations on the thrift store success and surviving Kate’s driving. The clothes sound great.
I’m not into molding.
The morning floof makes the trip to St George worth while!
I appreciated her driving me, but she’s one of those who can’t drive without music playing loudly, so it discourages any conversation. She also has a library. I thought I had a lot of books... Hers are in back-to-back bookcases, in rows, with another row of bookcases along a wall with windows. There must have been six rows of bookcases, all of them at least six shelves high.
She also has several of those file cabinets with the wide shelves, and picked up another one at the thrift store. This one was five drawers high.
Navigating her house was an obstacle course. I was glad to get out of there, but knowing her is an experience I’ll remember for a lot of years.
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