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 imagessimilar 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 bank with Capital One 360. I pay all bills online. If the company doesn't have a relationship that lets the bank just send the money, the bank sends a check. I don't pay for the stamp. And their calendar tool lets me select the pay date that will get the check there on time. I've been doing this for years and never had a payment get lost.
I would probably do that, but my bank isn’t set up for it. Long story short, since my math skills are compromised by CFIDS (every job I had for most of my life, I worked with money) I can’t balance a checkbook.
This bank allows me to write checks and takes the money out immediately so the check will be covered. Otherwise, I’d still be using money orders.
It’s not my idea of fun, but it is what it is, and I have to function the way the disease will allow me to. So for now, this bank is the only game in town.
I like to look at the different architecture, since at one time, I studied drafting. As for trying on clothes, I don’t even do that with the clothing I CAN afford! And there’s no way I’d drive a car without actually having the money to buy it.
But architecture is something else. I used to watch my dad for hours, building things. And I always enjoyed looking at the books he bought on interior design
Capital One is an on-line only bank. You could open an account in a few minutes.
If you sent your payments to go the same day, the money would be withdrawn immediately and your balance updated in the Web app.
If you’re set, you’re set. I’m just trying to save you $.50 per bill.
Visiting open houses was a regular activity with my mother and aunt, who were both Realtors: my mother occasionally, my aunt as a career until she was 80.
Happy Friday. I have done some this and that, and now I’ll figure out something else until it’s time to go to Walmart.
The bank I use is online only as well, but I don’t pay anything for anything, except the actual checks.
Trying to navigate new systems is very difficult and confusing for me (again, thanks to CFIDS) and even updates to websites I visit on a regular basis cause a huge amount of frustration for me. Reading directions is often like reading a foreign language because they make no sense.
The insidiousness of this disease is that appearances are extremely deceptive. I appear to function normally, but you wouldn’t want to live around me. Honest.
Congratulations on your This and That accomplishments!
I’m working on my grocery list for next week and also a list of things I want to get done today — when I get the BB SUV back.
The wind is up again. *sigh* Now would probably be a good time to re-do that swamp cooler vent.
It is very cold here.
It’s 46° here, with rain showing up on the radar. The sky is pink, right now, and snow is showing in the radar for the mountains.
I’ll be texting Casey, soon...
I defeated Kathleen in a card game, and now I’m going to Walmart with Vlad, after a pass through the laundry room and the bathroom.
Thank you and have a great weekend, y’all.
Welp, the news is as I feared. The truck is running on three cylinders, and there is a burnt valve. A head job is in order, but there is no way I’m going to pay for that, even over time.
I guess Casey will be coming to get me soon. I hope. ;o]
Websites have directions?
We went from 28 fs last night to 4 fs this morning. We are expecting some negative fs before things warm up.
Thanks for stopping by. I hope you got some tea and crumpets. If not, we’ll blame Moose.
Have a good weekend.
Brrrrrr.
Well, bummer. Drive it until it goes blooey? Use delivery? Does your county have senior-citizens’ transport service?
Drive it until I’m tired of it failing, or until I’m ready to move. Casey hinted that he would be willing to buy it for parts, but I’m thinking he wants to trade something he has for it. I still haven’t told him I’m moving to AR, but there is time for that.
I’m not going to worry about it. The only thing I’m really concerned with is my monthly appointments at the pain clinic and being able to get the morphine. The only other things are Walmart, which now has a delivery service here, and church, but there is always someone willing to take me to church. So it’s all good. As little as I drive, it should last for the next six months or until I’m ready to leave.
No, there is no paratransit here for the senior/disabled population because there is no fixed route bus service. St George has it, but ADA laws are specific on when and where the paratransit can operate. They have to operate during the same hours as fixed route and can’t go farther than a mile to either side of a fixed route.
Anything that has directions. Including ATM machines. Pin pads in stores. Coin operated car washes. Laundromats that use debit cards instead of coins. The list is endless. In a lot of ways, I’m illiterate.
Humph. Maybe you’ll have some bus service in Arkansas.
We read a couple of scenes of Henry VI. Mass hysterics ensued when Sir William Lucy said he wished his eyes were bullets so he could shoot them out of his head at Joan of Arc.
Now I’ve sent the teenbros upstairs to get their teeth clean or die trying.
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