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’ve done a few little things.
Used 3” wide duct tape on the plastic bag over the vent.
Got a package ready for mailing. (Northbound.)
Sorted some things for donation.
Cleaned the bathroom, of course.
Next, I’ll see what I can do in the kitchen. Maybe.
I had Vlad empty the last things out of the outside freezer. Then I unplugged it. It will probably take 24 hours to begin to defrost, because it’s really cold in the garage.
With the garage being cold, it’s likely that the sun won’t be shining in there. It is shining here. Outside.
And I’m wondering where my day has gone. I made the bed and finally folded the sleep shirts and as I did, I realized that Monday is wash day again. *sigh* I seem to be in a time loop.
It’s a little sunny outside, but the garage has only one little (and very dirty) window in the side door.
I ran out of steam. It happens like that. I get a few things done, think I’m going to do a few more, and my self comes to a screeching halt. Done for the day, though my head has other ideas.
This is my life since I’ve been in this apartment, and I’m pretty sure it’s because this place is so moldy. I was never this way in Henderson. I could at least focus, there, and when it came to packing, I was able to do it until the pain got to be too much. I can’t even get started, here.
I need a lot of help and that’s before the packing. I’m surprised I managed to get things sorted and some ready for donation. I’ll just try to do what I can when I can and pray that I’m far enough advanced that it won’t be too hard for my helpers to pick up the slack.
It’s a difficult time for a lot of people. Don’t beat yourself up. Your stuff is basically nothing when a group of young, healthy movers gets at it.
When we moved from Oklahoma City, the moving company sent people over to look at our apartment. They had scheduled a day to pack and a day to load, but when they saw it, they said, “We can pack and load this in a morning.”
I miss the days when the military moved us, but since then, I’ve become quite adept at it myself. It’s just this move. I’m judging it by all my past moves and I shouldn’t. But then, it shouldn’t be this difficult.
So it has to be an outside factor, and I’m inclined to blame it on the mold in this place. Maybe once I can leave the door open for an hour or two a day, I can get more done. One thing is sure — I won’t be using the A/C. If there is mold in the walls, there is mold in that little unit, as well.
Anyway, I’m off to bed. Something I ate didn’t agree with me, and I need to go lie down for the duration.
See you in the morning.
Have a good night!
Howya, moose07! Cats can be worse than family, no doubt.
How is England these days? Have you been vaccinated?
Funny...
That’s the look I had on my face when I found this song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEV2mwNTkIs
...because all I could think of was this movie:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094142/?ref_=vp_back
That was pretty funny, Moosie.
I don’t spend much time on FB these days because it locks up my computer and I don’t like that. So I’m on in the very early morning for about 30 minutes and that’s it for the day.
It’s good to see you here, too!! <3
Good to see you all.
Rather busy working over Chritmas, quieter now thankfully.
“How is Blighty?”
Just like herding Cats as usual.
Very little notice being taken of the latest lockdown, and amazingly the numbers are falling like a brick. Looking at the figures I recon it has burned through the entire population...run out of targets, amongst those who have carried on as normal.
Brexit is going very well, loads of trade deals. Not too sure exactly what we are going to be trading....Tea..Must be, not much else.
On the Vaccination thing: 10 million now reprogrammed.
Parents where reprogrammed yesterday. 90% of OAPS now reprogrammed.
Myself shall be obstaining from this having encountered this thing three times ,the immune response has become Nuclear in response. Also I trust Pfizer less than I would J .Stalin.
TC Data:
Bodies are continuing to pile up in the countryside as the new series is still being filmed.
LOL,
Now I’ve got another obscure Film to try and find. :)
Kitteh wants to sleep in on a Sunday!
Good morning.
The duct tape seems to have done the trick. When I came out of the bathroom after my shower, there was no cold draft. The place was noticeably warmer, all the way around. Yesterday, when I was trying to add the duct tape, I was really worried that I would lose my balance and fall against the wall, or off the step-stool, but I tried to take it slowly. It worked.
What a pleasant change.
Glad to hear it. My cats did not want to sleep in.
It sounds as though things are going well. One would think the lockdowns and distancing and all that make it harder for people to be murdered ... but it doesn’t seem to be the case in the U.S., now I think of it.
We all (my resident household of 7) had Covid last month. My mother got her vaccines and will probably be visiting us before long.
But it’s SO worth finding that film, Moose!! You’ll love it! Billy Crystal.
The problem with the vent being sealed off of course, is the mold. I’m hoping I can open one of the doors for a while during the days, so at least I can get started on packing. Well, make some more progress, anyway. I DO have some stuff packed but I’m still at the weeding out stages.
The bedroom is almost ready, but I have to get some string-tie bags for the clothes.
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