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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G’orning. Can’t help you with the “album vs. file” question. When I can’t find something, I offer a cash prize to the youth residents!
So cold in here this morning!
Happy Thorsday, ArGee. Got snow?
The snow remains, but nothing is falling. The parking lot isn’t all that clear. The new management company has given us one set of directions but seems to have followed another. The transition has been, shall we say, less than smooth.
The puppy really appreciates the opportunity to find a deep drift to drop her “gifts” into. I think the bags dropped in the pet waste can have as much snow in them as pet waste.
That reminds me that I need to have a boy clean the cat box again. Normally, I smell it, but not right now.
W00t!
I was waiting for someone else to get it. So thanks!
I’m sure it will work out, sooner or later. I have no youth to offer a cash prize to, so like I’ve done almost all my life, I’ll try one thing and if it doesn’t work I’ll try another. Until such time as I find a solution, by guess or by gosh.
It’s cold here, too. The wind isn’t helping.
I went to mail a letter to my Favorite Son and even though yesterday’s mail digest said there was a piece of mail they had “no image for” there was no mail in the box. Two days in a row that has happened. Hmpf.
Maybe the puppy just likes to feel the snow on her puppy butt.
It’s 27 here, according to my phone. I mailed you a card a few days ago.
I’m wearing my Zion National Park shirt. It’s thick!
I hope it helps to keep you warm!
I love mine! But then, I’m always cold, even in the summer, here.
Welks. I didn’t realize how close we were when I posted, then was sure it was already taken.
Been there. Done that.
Good job, anyway!
I just learned this morning that my Favorite Daughter has Type II Diabetes. That’s two out of two children. Mom doesn’t have it, but both their dads did.
Now it makes me wonder if I should get a glucose meter, anyway, just to keep track of my hypoglycemia. Sooner or later, the pancreas may get tired of pumping out the excess insulin.
Very sorry to hear that. I hope she is wise and follows the guidance to manage her condition.
Geologists ‘resurrect’ missing tectonic plate
Was there a vote on tectonic plates I missed and the democrooks won.
IF my son had stayed on the hypoglycemic diet he and I were placed on when he was 13, after he had gotten out of the army, his chances of diabetes showing up when it did (late 20’s) would have been next to nothing. I didn’t know at the time that his dad was diabetic or I could have warned him.
My daughter had gestational diabetes with both her sons, and her dad was diagnosed with diabetes in his sixties, so she was well aware of the potential risk.
Now, however, I’m hoping they can form a bond over this thing and learn how to rely on each other in the future. She was going to call him and ask him what meter he uses, so there’s a start. She’s interested in trying to help control it with diet as much as possible, so I told her that the current Keto diet is about as close to the hypoglycemic diet as she could get, so she’s off and running. She’s going to help herself, just as she did with her alcohol and drug dependency.
She’ll make it work for her.
Sounds good. I sent Patrick, a family transportation asset, to the library to pick up my books. My next thing will be starting on the kids’ supper.
I have a headache. The wind is still blowing and I think it’s because of the wind that my head hurts. I’ll have to keep track of that.
I’ll go to the library tomorrow and I don’t really want to. I also have to put gas in the truck. And I don’t want to do that, either, but...
Your transportation asset should do things like that just to thank you for teaching him to drive without beating him severely about the head and shoulders in the process. But then, you’re too kind for that, anyway.
When do Vlad and James start their driving school? It will be a relief to me to see someone else take over that job from you. You’ve gone above and beyond the call in that department!
End of March, but a family member will still have to do driving practice with them. Maybe it won’t be so bad if they’ve had driver’s ed from a professional teacher!
Sorry about your headache! I’m cooking bacon for a grits casserole for the kids’ supper. I kind of smell it, a little.
Perhaps it won’t be quite so bad if it’s not all left to you. That’s super stressful.
I’m sure the headache will end when the wind does. I just can’t keep this place warm with the draft from the cooler vent. Maybe, if I feel up to it tomorrow, I’ll get up there with some duct tape and make sure it sticks. I spend several minutes, several times a day, trying to plaster the packing tape back to the ceiling and it comes off again 10 - 15 minutes later.
Now, I think I’m going to head down the hall. Its not been a good day.
See ya!
I hope tomorrow is a much better day! James, the future student driver, is washing up the dishes from dinner prep.
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