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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Tweezers are the key.
I still want a shed, but oh, well. I probably couldn’t spend any time in it, anyway.
Your kids brush their teeth? Dang, you’re good.
Hmmm. Docs with kitty paw patterned lug soles...
Ahh, bed
Light dread
Days red
Rots head
Wars shred
Vile bled
Doom’s sled
Hell’s fed
Home tread
Arms shed
Safe stead
Ahh, bed
My dentist’s drill is even better.
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“I still want a shed, ...”
Unless you can build it yourself, and REALLY know what you want, and what you’re doing...
I recommend the “Tall” configurations, as that’s an 8ft nominal “ceiling” height, but they’ll customize about as much as you want. Play, play, play...
I've been lazy, to tell the truth. But I don't see a particular problem with that. If I don't catch up with my work, then it will catch up with me.
I have a shed, but it is inconveniently located. This after it has already been moved once. I'm still scratching my head about that. Best laid plans, you know.
By the time I could use it, I’ll be almost ready for my retirement apartment near the library, a bar, and my church.
I’m told my sheds could be moved, but... BOY, they’re HEAVY, so I don’t know how well that’d work.
The new one is set nicely. The older one...not so much, and it’s settling a bit. Getting it well-footed would require moving it TWICE: to the side, then back, again.
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:D
You could have a She-Shed and wouldn’t have to run off to Costa Rica, or anyplace similar. Books, British Mysteries, good music... Even a laptop you didn’t have to share!
What more could you ask for?
We bought one of those when they first came out, forever-ago, and within six months after we sold our home, everything, including the Tuffshed, was wiped out in a flood.
You always know where to find the really cool stuff! ;o]
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They would find me. I don’t think they’ll find me in Colombia!
*snicker*
Yeah, see — so it wouldn’t be a stretch for them to pull it off.
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