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 went to nap for a bit, but now I’m back. I’m thinking out going out to pull weeds and spread mulch for a while.
I need to get parallel to deck and not get up for a while.
The iHerb delivery should be here soon, but I just don’t think I can wait around. I’m going to put on a sleep shirt, take my last dose of pills for the day and call it quits.
I’m sorry to be a party pooper but my body hates me. See you in the morning.
I hope you have a great night! I took a break from gardening to get supper going for the kids, but I plan to go back to it.
Well, that was a wash.
I made it about 30 minutes, then slept for two hours, then got up and checked on the box from iHerb. It was rescheduled for “Before 9:00 PM.” Unngh.
Well I was up so I went ahead and read Scriptures and had a bazillion interruptions for whatever reason. Finally around 1800, the doorbell rang and I got up long enough to empty the box and then went back to bed, finished what I was doing and went to sleep.
Strange day.
Now, I’m going to sort my pills, I think, and get ready for Walmart. Unngh. The wind is blowing here which means it will be horrendous there.
Good morning. We had an internet snafu, but it’s been fixed.
What a precious little kitteh!
Good morning.
I hate when I have problems with the interwebs. But, since I know how to write letters, I can do that, if I need to!
I went to access some uplifting talks this mornings and they’ve changed the entire website. They’ve taken out all the older talks having to do with spirituality, character-building, faith and belief and left in the academic talks that really, I would have passed by, simply because I’m not attending an academic institution. So I’ll have to replace the talks with something else. I haven’t figured out what, yet...
I’ll have to leave for Walmart soon, and I really wish I could go just any morning I feel the urge, at any time I feel it. The state mask mandate is supposed to be lifted in two weeks, so who know what can happen after that. Folks are using the masks as a token gesture, now:
It’s on my face, so I’m in compliance.
But it’s under your chin.
Well, I’m still wearing it.
Good morning. Happy Tuesday.
For people who depend so much in the internet, we have a lot of snafus up here.
Here they’re talking about instituting a vaccine passport to let people into sporting venues and so forth.
Will I be able to go in without a mask? No.
Then why do I need the vaccine?
I think our Emmy Award Winning Governor just can’t give up control.
Feels like 33°
High / Low
62°/35°
Wind 17 mph
Humidity 23%
Dew Point 6°
Pressure 30.08 in
Moon Phase
Waning Gibbous
Back from Walmart. I don’t know what the temperature was there, nor the wind velocity, but I do know it was VERY cold and straight out of the north.
Somehow, when I opened the car door to put the groceries in, I lost one-half of my sunshield so I’ll have to get another one asap. Evidently, the wind blew it out while I was busy gathering up the grocery bags. Gloriosky. Monday II, anyone?
I saw that vaccine passport blurb. Wait until he finds out his control was an illusion...
Wow. Quiet day.
Is everybody out gardening? It would be a gorgeous day here if the wind would die down.
I need to go get a sun shield for the car but I’m thinking I’ll wait until tomorrow on my way to the pain clinic. Providing the DD comes in between bow and then.
You’re waiting for Dunkin Donuts?
Sorry. Direct Deposit.
Hi, I’m back. James and Vlad had eye exams, and it took all morning, but it had to be done asap so they can continue their driver training. They can both see just fine.
Then I bought them lunch.
Now I need to work on music until it’s time for Kathleen’s riding lesson.
Ohyes. I forgot about the eye exams. Well, I’m glad to hear their vision is good. When I was their ages, my eyes just kept getting worse (regressive myopia) and the astigmatism in both eyes rendered me almost blind without my glasses.
When I was in the car accident, I decided to opt for contact lenses, and it slowed the regression and corrected the astigmatism to where I could actually see without squinting. So I wore the contacts from then on.
Amazing things, eyes!
So when do the boys start driving school?
How is Kathleen doing with her riding lessons?
I’m about an hour overdue, according to my brain...
‘Night!
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