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Geologists 'resurrect' missing tectonic plate
Phys.org ^ | 10/20/2020 | Sara Tubbs, University of Houston

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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TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: canada; catastrophism; cenozoic; continentaldrift; geology; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal; koalaoil; mantletomography; molassesmiasma; molassessmiasma; platetectonics; reunitepangea; science; stolenplates; tomography; undeadthread; undeadthreadhere; unghandmoose; uofhouston
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To: Tax-chick

I’m sorry the garden was closed. I was looking forward to photos. But there’s always next time.

Tom doesn’t need to stay in a place where he’s abused, and what they do to their employees at that Chipotle is abuse. It may also be corporate policy, but it’s still abuse. He deserves better than that.

I hope he’s able to find the summer work he wants. It should heal all the wounds of retail employment abuse.


4,521 posted on 04/06/2021 2:51:20 AM PDT by Monkey Face (Kindness is the essence of greatness. ~~ Joseph B Wirthlin ~~)
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To: Monkey Face

I hope he gets an environment job this summer, too, not only because it would make him happy, but because it would increase the odds of his getting the Real Job, using his degree, once he graduates.

But if not, he has plenty of job skills and self confidence, and he can get a better “pay the bills” job for six or eight months until graduation. One reason he was hanging in at Chipotle was that he liked most of his coworkers, but a lot of the people he liked have already quit!


4,522 posted on 04/06/2021 3:21:21 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("Scarcity is real, and reality is not optional." ~ KDW)
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4,523 posted on 04/06/2021 3:22:35 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("Scarcity is real, and reality is not optional." ~ KDW)
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To: Tax-chick; ArGee

Morning floof was me, last night. Almost all night.

Good morning.

I’ve decided to put off Walmart until tomorrow. I may even have them deliver. The less I’m out in the pollen-laden air, the better I feel. I’d love to have the Kenalog shot, but I have no way to get in to St George. Maybe I’ll make a phone call today, or a text message and see what I can come up with. Maybe someone would like to take me to DI when we’re done! (Thrift store.)


4,524 posted on 04/06/2021 3:48:52 AM PDT by Monkey Face (Kindness is the essence of greatness. ~~ Joseph B Wirthlin ~~)
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To: Monkey Face

You might like the delivery service! I know several people from church who are order-pullers at Walmart.

I keep promising myself a trip to the Goodwill Store, but I haven’t done it yet. Maybe later this week.

DP is getting a Covid vaccine this morning, and then Kathleen has a riding lesson, and then we’re taking Bill the Son out for his birthday.


4,525 posted on 04/06/2021 4:12:59 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("Scarcity is real, and reality is not optional." ~ KDW)
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To: Tax-chick

That makes sense.

It’s kind of odd the way managers handle salary discussions with existing employees. I had one who would make big boosts to keep me but wouldn’t give me small regular raises. I finally decided that if I had to ask for a decent raise I’d get my raise by finding another employer.


4,526 posted on 04/06/2021 5:16:55 AM PDT by ArGee (This is a tagline. This is only a tagline. Had it been a post, it would have been told to look up.)
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To: Monkey Face

I hope the prescriptions work. My allergies actually trigger migraines, but at least I almost never get a headache any more, and it’s much less frequent that it’s a severe one.


4,527 posted on 04/06/2021 5:17:52 AM PDT by ArGee (This is a tagline. This is only a tagline. Had it been a post, it would have been told to look up.)
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To: Tax-chick; Monkey Face; NicknamedBob; null and void; no-to-illegals; Silentgypsy; ColdOne; ...

Good morning. Happy Tuesday.

I’m with kitteh. Stop the world, I want to get off.


4,528 posted on 04/06/2021 5:19:06 AM PDT by ArGee (This is a tagline. This is only a tagline. Had it been a post, it would have been told to look up.)
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To: ArGee

Many retail and food service businesses prefer the cost of employee turnover to the cost of better wages/hours. Maybe it really does work out better for them in normal times, but these are not normal times. There are so many programs supporting what would be low-wage workers that many of them are getting by as non-workers.

If the store loses Tom, they will feel it.


4,529 posted on 04/06/2021 5:24:46 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("Scarcity is real, and reality is not optional." ~ KDW)
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To: ArGee

I’ve had migraines since the pollen count went up, but I didn’t attribute them to the allergies. They were “fleeting,” as my migraines go so I dismissed them as flukes. Now I know they probably aren’t. Thanks. That’s good information to have.


4,530 posted on 04/06/2021 5:29:42 AM PDT by Monkey Face (Kindness is the essence of greatness. ~~ Joseph B Wirthlin ~~)
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To: Tax-chick

I like the pick-up service, but I was reserving the delivery service for when I absolutely positively had to give up the Tracker.

There was going to be a “test run” so I think I’ll do it now. Two people that live in this complex use it, so why not? The earliest they deliver is between 0700 and 0800 but that works.


4,531 posted on 04/06/2021 5:34:03 AM PDT by Monkey Face (Kindness is the essence of greatness. ~~ Joseph B Wirthlin ~~)
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To: Tax-chick

Well, I may like the delivery service quite well, but it’s $7.95 plus a $7.00 tip (suggested) to the driver. They were out of water, so I’ll stop at Lin’s on my way to Walgreen’s to get my prescriptions this morning.

They will deliver today, (it won’t be any cheaper tomorrow or any other day) so I took the earliest time slot — 1100 to 1200. Next time, I’ll order earlier in the day!

My mind just isn’t functioning the way it should, or I would have driven. I learned a long time ago that when my brain is full of gray lint, driving is not a good idea.


4,532 posted on 04/06/2021 5:51:51 AM PDT by Monkey Face (Kindness is the essence of greatness. ~~ Joseph B Wirthlin ~~)
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To: Monkey Face

All you can do is the best you can do!

Out of water, gee.


4,533 posted on 04/06/2021 6:09:02 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("Scarcity is real, and reality is not optional." ~ KDW)
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To: Tax-chick

It happens with this store, more often than I like to think about, but Lin’s always seems to have an abundance of cases close to the same price, so it’s no big deal. It’s a lot closer, too!


4,534 posted on 04/06/2021 6:17:54 AM PDT by Monkey Face (Kindness is the essence of greatness. ~~ Joseph B Wirthlin ~~)
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To: Monkey Face

DP has gone to get his vaccination. The yutes and I read a couple of scenes of Henry VI, Part 2. The Duke of Gloucester was murdered, and Cardinal Beaufort died of guilt. (and old age)


4,535 posted on 04/06/2021 7:41:37 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("Scarcity is real, and reality is not optional." ~ KDW)
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To: Monkey Face

https://www.webmd.com/migraines-headaches/migraine-triggers-allergies


4,536 posted on 04/06/2021 8:09:24 AM PDT by ArGee (This is a tagline. This is only a tagline. Had it been a post, it would have been told to look up.)
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To: ArGee

Thanks. It’s nice to get an explanation for things.

I’ve had sinus headaches and I’ve had migraines, and the two, in my estimation, are totally different.

When I was in Vegas, and CFIDS was ramping up, I was put on Augmentin for the chronic sinus infection. (The medicos tried everything else that was available but the other drugs wouldn’t touch it. So they went to Augmentin, which is the antibiotic they give cancer patients.) Once I got out of the building full of asbestos, the sinus infections disappeared.

Migraines, well, I’ve had them since I was eight years old, and there is no mistaking what they are.

However, over the weekend, I DID have a sinus headache, but there were also twinges of the migraine along with it. Neither was “bad,” but both together was a new experience. I DO get sinus headaches, but I think their severity is due to the damage my face suffered in the car accident so many years ago.

Anyway, thanks again. You seem to have an innate sense of where to go for the right links to help. ;o]


4,537 posted on 04/06/2021 9:04:14 AM PDT by Monkey Face (Kindness is the essence of greatness. ~~ Joseph B Wirthlin ~~)
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To: Tax-chick; ArGee

While I was at Walgreen’s they had folks lined up at the drive-up window to get the Covid tests, but the paperwork hadn’t been printed, yet. As I left, there were three vehicles at a very small store.

I paid for the water at Lin’s, with no cart, of course, and then had to get the Tracker from the parking lot and back up to where the water was stacked outside. I put one case in and the pharmacist, who was just going in to work, asked me if I needed help. I thanked him and then wondered if he’d had the fleeting thought that he was abetting as I was absconding with water at $2.39 a case.

Earlier, before the sun was up, I made a copy of the post office receipt and took it over to Chuck’s drop. Just so he has something besides the bright pink slip of card stock that was given to me as a “receipt” to show when I got the other keys. But hopefully, Adam will take care of it all for me. I hope. I put one of the keys with my spare apartment key (something I’ve done everywhere I’ve lived) and will put the other one on a separate key chain.

The allergy prescriptions aren’t all that...


4,538 posted on 04/06/2021 9:30:01 AM PDT by Monkey Face (Kindness is the essence of greatness. ~~ Joseph B Wirthlin ~~)
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To: Monkey Face

I have never found that antihistamines worked worked especially well.


4,539 posted on 04/06/2021 9:33:43 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("Scarcity is real, and reality is not optional." ~ KDW)
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To: Tax-chick

Unclehistimines are far stronger.


4,540 posted on 04/06/2021 9:46:30 AM PDT by ArGee (This is a tagline. This is only a tagline. Had it been a post, it would have been told to look up.)
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