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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Thats.
Not.
Funny.
But only because it’s too true.
It’s gotta be so much worse for the UK.
Yep.
There is that as a valid point. :D
Most of my area is back at work and largely ignoring it completely.
Only complying with guidelines when someone’s business is at stake.
If you stray into a different county you can see the paranoia, this county has always been like herding cats.
I wonder if it’s mine. I set it down somewhere and have never been able to find it. Did they find a pair of glasses with it?
We had a large box when the medium-dog-sized cat carrier came. Cats and children could get into it.
Dental hygienists find "social distance" to be a nebulous concept.
I only knew one who was mature, and he died before we could be married, so I don't know how that would have worked out. He was 14 years older.
W00t!
There I went and missed all the fun again. *sigh*
I think it must be Firefox that won’t let certain photos be displayed. I have click on “Show Image” and the only way back out of that (that I know of) is to close the window and open another one. But I don’t want to go back to Windoze. It’s bad enough I have to put up with their interminable updates.
Wellnow. Charlie’s call.
I need to try and find a sympathy card to send him. His long time friend, Myrtle, passed away. She had gotten a motorized wheel chair maybe 12 years ago, and quit walking entirely, when she used to walk at least a mile every day with Charlie. After a few years, she began to fall in her apartment, and kept smacking her face so she always looked beaten up.
Her son placed her in an assisted living complex where she did quite well. That was about four years ago. COVID came around and missed her, and she had told Charlie then that she would live to be 100. Then she got the vaccine and within a week she was dead. She was 97.
She was a tough ol’ broad!
It also seems as if whoever is running the place there wants everything done on computer, and Charlie has trouble with a simple cell phone. He can probably make arrangements with his bank to pay it, but I don’t know if they have a “senior rep” there, any more. We don’t have one, so if a person doesn’t know the ins and outs of housing here, s/he won’t learn.
And it seems he has all of the Clive Cussler books, now. I sent him four, and had given him another three when I lived there.
He took a walk a while ago, and met one of his new neighbors coming the other way who had a mask on. Charlie greeted him, and the guy told him he should be wearing a mask, and Charlie’s response was they he was outside and didn’t need one. Then he said, “But I guess I should because I met you.” Charlie said to me, “He won’t talk to me, now.”
OK, I’m off to take my shower, now.
Coffee.
Good morning. So sorry to hear about Charlie’s friend.
I slept through the beep of the coffee pot! Guess I was tahrd. The cats are waiting for their meat (and Shannon’s pill).
This morning both cows and barn cats told me that if I expected them to go outside I was insane. Cats have taken to sleeping ON the cows for warmth. The chickens did not even bother to come out of their nice warm coop to greet me.
14 degrees out there. Put some more wood in the stove and I think I will crawl back in bed for a couple of hours.
That kitteh’s name should be “Smudge!”
Good morning.
I still have to write to Charlie, this morning, but I’ll get to it.
Maybe I’ll get something done today that I didn’t get done yesterday, even if it’s only a couple of boxes. I’m actually farther along than it seems, but there are just so many empty boxes around, waiting.
Good morning!
Kitteh’s name is Lulu Belle. She is pedigreed!
Temp is hovering around freezing here, with occasionally dribs of ice on the window. I have a dermatologist appointment at 0800 EST. It’s only about 10 minutes away, so I have to eat before I dress.
I knew Myrtle. She always dressed very nicely, complete with necklace and earrings to match her outfits every day. She was from MN and she came from a family of 10 children. Or maybe it was 12. Her dad left the family to run the farm, while he disappeared. She said they were so poor they ate popcorn for at least one meal a day.
She had a male friend who was also from MN and also Charlie’s best friend. This guy had gone to spend some time with her one night, said he wasn’t feeling well and complained of chest pains. She wanted him to stay the night but he felt he should go home. He didn’t answer the phone when she called him the next morning and when she went to his apartment, she found him dead.
The flip side to all this loss is that the drug dealer who took a shine to me (because I had commented on his Corvette) absolutely hated Charlie for some nebulous reason, and if we were sitting at the gazebo when this guy came to check his mail, he would always yell at Charlie. So Charlie would just turn his back.
Well, now it seems that Reggie is Charlie’s BFF! Strange workings! He did tell me that if a person has Humana health services that UPS will deliver enough food for a month. I don’t know how accurate that is, but it’s a nice gesture.
I probably would have slept in if the alarm hadn’t been set. It seems to be the only I can keep my sleep patterns close to normal. If I wake up before the alarm rings, then I know I’m rested. Within an hour, anyway. :o]
I was on the sofa with three blankets.
Off to dress for the dermatologist. (Sweats, easy-off so they can tell me if anything on my skin is likely to kill me this year. I don’t have time for anything that doesn’t kill me quick, like a dump truck!)
Kitteh is beautiful!
It’s 29° here again. I’m thinking I’ll never be able to put my leg warmers away, but they make a lot of difference in how warm I am.
I can’t recall when was the last time I saw a dermatologist. Probably when my Favorite Son was an only child. Good luck on your appointment!
Did you ever get the go ahead to order the foot brace?
I need to write to Charlie.
I’ll be back...
Good morning, everyone. Happy Friday.
Coffee. Yes.
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