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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Trust me: Retirement is a very lot of work. I don’t recommend it if you want to keep your sanity. ;o]
And Happy Friday Eve to you, too!
Can you call someone to come get the donations? I have a box on the kitchen floor of stuff that I need to donate. Maybe I’ll get by Goodwill some day.
I guess it’s time to read Kathleen a book. We can do Shakespeare after lunch.
I’ve already made arrangements for someone to come and get the donations, but she isn’t coming until the 4th. In the meantime, they just have to sit, in my way.
I just went through my photos so I could get rid of the bulky albums. It will give me a chance, probably when I get settled, to either scan them all or at the least, put captions on them. Scanning is probably a better way to go.
But between that and the histories that I have to transcribe, I’ll never get away from this computer.
Someday, historians will thank you!
Yes, mebbe so, but I’ll be too dead to accept the roses!
I just realized that when I get home from Casey’s, I’ll have to shred all these papers as well as some photos I’ve separated from the ones I I want to keep. Some things just don’t need to hang around and remind me of my mistakes.
There is almost a file drawer’s worth of papers that I’ve managed to weed out. *sigh* At least it’s stuff I won’t have to take with me.
Well, yes, it’s funny, but not in the way it was intended at the time it was first done, but in a “what goes around comes around” sort of way. Of course, if that’s the way it was intended then I’m having the first LOL of the day. ;o]
I don’t know how it was intended, but that’s the way I’m taking it.
Whats that charming German word? Schadenfreude, is it?
Back from virtual WW meeting. The leader was supposed to be Karen, from my old real-life meeting in Monroe, but it was some other lady. At least I saw some people I knew and some new people.
Yes, indeed! Schadenfreude it is!
Good to know your meeting went well.
I got to meet Casey’s better half this morning, and she brought me home because Casey had to go take the heavy equipment into the mountains to rescue someone who had gotten stuck.
I’m thinking the other guy(s) know what he was going to do and will take care of it, but Becky will probably be the one to come and get me.
She’s a very sweet person, and has some beautiful white teeth. Like mine were before the Lexapro left it’s mark. She wants to bring her monster-in-law down here from Cache Valley (about 80 miles north of SLC) to live in a small place and dump the two “kids” that are mooching off her. We’ll see...
No more nor less funny than the original, which means not funny.
The real question is whether people will be canceled for posting this version.
I hope Becky achieves her goals, and the things work out with the car for a few more months.
Well, evidently, Casey didn’t get the rescue done yesterday because no one sent me a text or called. So long about 0830 this morning, I’ll send him a text and find out what’s the what.
For your morning enjoyment:
Sounds like a plan.
Kitteh’s house is almost as splendiforic as the one I posted.
Good morning.
Sorry for the delay. I was paying bills. Unngh. Not done, yet, but I need to print stamps before I can mail them. Time flies when you’re having fun.
The fire extinguishers will be replaced today. In the rain, as likely as not.
Crikey. I forgot all about writing to Charlie. Walp, he’s gonna hafta wate. I have other things to take care of and half my usable day is already gone.
Good morning.
Happy Friday!
Iz Fridai. Can come out from under the chair.
We knew some people when we lived in a different part of the country who liked to test-drive cars they couldn’t afford and try on clothes they could never buy.
Not my thing.
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