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.
(Excerpt) Read more at phys.org ...
I just put “Brokenwood” in to play. Have you seen it? It’s set in New Zealand, so there is some beautiful scenery if one gets bored with the dialog. Not to mention that there are only so many old Westerns one can watch (listen to) before going stark raving bonkers.
So now, I’ll clean the cages and then wait for the clothes to try, and try to feel normal. Sorta. Not an easy feat, today.
“When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.”
Ha! First time I’ve seen that one.
So true, so true. We read Act III of Henry IV, Part II. Lots of jokes again.
Now, it’s time for Kathleen to do math drills again.
Warwick: It is but as a body yet distemper'd. Which to his former strength may be restored with good advice and little medicine.
Tomorrow. Trump's re-election. As long as we hold the Senate.
I had forgotten when posting (how could I forget this?) that puppy had a seizure when we were playing outside yesterday. She’s been to the vet to get bodily stuff tested and seems to be perfectly healthy right now. I’m hoping she managed to scoop some chocolate from the grass or something.
Also, my computer didn’t update for EST, so it think’s it’s 12:22 but my clock on the wall think’s it’s 11:22. That’s going to make attending some meetings difficult.
I hope the Dems are all bark and no bite, but I fear the Leftist-controlled cities will fare the worst when 45 is re-elected. What a sad situation for this country to be in...
Shakespeare’s kings have nothing on today’s heads of state.
The nation as a body or the king’s body as the nation is a recurring trope in the Plantagenet plays. Richard II maundered on and on about it.
Sorry about the puppy’s seizure! I hope it was just a fluke that won’t recur.
I’m so sorry to hear of puppy’s seizure. Most often chocolate only has detrimental effects if ingested over a period of time. I don’t recall learning that it would cause a seizure, even in a large dose, but then the class didn’t dwell too long on the eating of chocolate. Most notably, their bodies can’t digest it properly.
Cats, on the other hand, won’t touch it. Nor tobacco, while dogs can be given tobacco to be rid of parasites.
I had to go in and manually reset the computer here, too, and just now reset the last analog clock. I looked at it yesterday but it didn’t register with me that it was an hour off. Maybe one of these days, the time change effects on the human body will be enough for the lawmakers to change back. I hope.
History repeats. The themes don't change.
This is true!
I excel at re-stating the obvious. :-)
And underlining the subtitles of life... ;o]
I can do that too...
LOL! You are so good!
Always following suggestions. ;o]
I just wish still worked on all browsers...
Welp. I know when I’m outclassed. Not good on the color stuff or font changes, though before the Rodney King Riots back in ‘92, I was the first person at Norell Temp Services to score 100% on their DOS and Lotus 1-2-3 programs in the history of that particular office in LA.
Not having much use for DOS now, I’ve lost the art and can’t find my cheat sheet notebook, and I’ve never had to use Lotus, so I’m completely out of my elephant.
Now I have to go see Chuck...
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