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’ll check on the sweat shirts today, since Lin’s is just across the way from the post office. I’ll just send it with the other stuff, if I can find one. I hope she doesn’t have a color preference, because the choices are slim.
They probably won’t get the key replaced until tomorrow, but at least I’ll be able to give a spare to Chuck. The problem is that mine is the one mailbox key in the complex that doesn’t have a duplicate. Why Chuck would even dispense it that way is beyond me.
Every so often, I run across photos of the botanical gardens and they bring back fun memories! ;o]
Happy Good Friday!
I’m so sorry to hear of puppy’s seizure, and that you’re able to isolate the cause. Maybe she’s one of those dogs that will have to stay on a diet of boiled rice and meat for most of the rest of her life. At least it would be safe, and could always be carefully supplemented. A food diary may be an idea. But you’ve probably already thought of that.
No, color doesn’t matter, but it needs to be extra large: she likes very loose outerwear.
I’m sure there’s a nice garden in Arkansas that we can visit.
There are a LOT of places in AR to visit!
I like loosely fitting outerwear at times. Especially if I’m traveling. I always figure sweatshirts and hoodies are meant to be part of a layering system. I’m happy that all my XL sweatshirts are now actually XXL on me! ;o])
Excellent. We will find just the right spot!
There were so many, I just decided to send the link and let you have a look and then you can choose the ones you might want to check out. I mean, as my guest, and all...
Once you are relocated, we can look at the best choice for the time of year, distance, and so on.
Whoa! Why didn’t I think of that?
You probably did.
We will put together a full plan with backup plans!
Absolutely! I’m so looking forward to it! To the move, first, but then to your visit!
It will be so much fun!
Now that I’m back...I thought the lock for the post office was going to be under $20, but it was a whopping $40. And I can’t get the keys until Tuesday. I’ll have to ask Chuck to reimburse me for that, not just take it off the rent. The old key may or may not show up but I’m disinclined to wait.
Regarding the key, gah.
Regarding our Spanish Good Friday event, half a GAH! because the sound and video didn’t work, but the other half was a good attendance and no major errors on the songs, even the one I won’t ever use again.
We had a power outage, and I was literally in the dark for almost an hour. I went back to bed, but couldn’t go back to sleep.
Harley started barking next door, and that’s the first time I’ve heard him unless he was outside. Just about the time he settled down, the lights came back on.
The trees out front are in full bloom and I’ve had a sinus headache for two days, along with a runny nose that won’t quit. I have no idea what spring will be like in AR, but I suspect it will be mitigated by the A/C. Which is non-existent, here.
Pollens. ARGHH!
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Good morning. I slept in a bit: Jake got under the covers and purred instead of being seriously obnoxious.
DP says he has sorted out the sound problem with the church’s tech guy, so we won’t have problems tomorrow. I’m not very confident, but I’ll keep that between me, you, and the superior Abyssinian kitten.
I’m dressed in my cleaning duds for a morning of getting things squared away for major cooking events. Tom will be over later with his kitchen skills.
The Abyssinian is a perfect way to start a day that was otherwise not very noteworthy. If I were anyone else, the power outage would have gone unnoticed. However, when the mattress pad shuts off, I get cold and that makes the hovering pain pounce. So I get up, hoping to escape it all.
I can’t remember allergies so severe. Ever. This is the worst of the worst I’ve ever experienced. </whine
When I talked to Chuck a few days ago, he said management told him the mulberry trees can’t come out just yet because management says they don’t have the money. I told Chuck that one of these days, with the strong winds we get here, these mulberry trees are going to end up toppling over, and I’m not in the mood to have one in my living room and one on my car.
I’ll be watching Conference from 1000 to 1200 and again from 1400 to 1600 MDT, today and tomorrow, but I’ll be on here before (as usual) and during the lunch break. There is an evening session at 1800 tonight, but I’ll watch it when I get up in the morning.
What is the talented Tom going to cook today? Did he ever consider culinary school? It sounds like he has a flair for the art.
Tom has several things in mind for tomorrow. One is a bacon and egg sandwich with “pretzel buns,” so we may be working on pretzel buns today. Depends on Events. He expected to be at work until at least midnight last night, so it might be noon before he gets over here.
Tom does have a flair, but he’s pretty tired of restaurant work at this point and really wants to be outside saving a river or mountain.
I’ve always like bacon and egg sandwiches (or as the kids called them, “bakenegg samiges.”
I was thinking more in terms of catering, or teaching. I think he’d be a good teacher.
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