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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w00t!
Or, as Brittny would say, “Whoops, I did it again.” ;)
Thanks!
It was just sitting there, and I’ve had my head in packing preparations, so I worked hard!
Last night, the Perfect Wife was out working in their back yard, and we had a text conversation. She said my Favorite Son with having dinner with his Favorite Son, and during a lull in our texting, I got a message from FS.
He told me he loved me. I said, “So. You having dinner with your Favorite Son?” There was a pause of close to a minute and he said, “How did you know that?” LOL!
When I got done giggling, I told him I had been texting with his Perfect Wife. That was priceless!
High spot of my day!
4,600!
Whoops, I need to brush my teeth and go get Pat. Not that he would notice my teeth, but I’m taking a stand for civilization!
I sorted through a monstrous pile of paperwork that was mixed with other stuff, then organized some things that need to be be packed together, and will have to find another box for your books, T-c. With any luck, they’ll go out this coming week.
Progress is slow, but it’s still progress!
I leafed through that atlas and the thing is so small that there are very few cities in Russia, and no roads. Hmpf.
I want to do more but my back is telling me I need to sit down and find something quiet to do.
That's a little scary. I wonder when they are going to print a small atlas of NY and the cities and roads will disappear.
Come to think of it, that might be a good thing.
Evening, epople. Much driving about with kids today. We have “William Shakespeare’s Star Wars” on CD. It’s very funny. We were just getting into “The Empire Striketh Back” on the way home from Envirothon this afternoon.
Somewhere, I may still have a map of Manhattan, from my visit there in 2004, but it wasn’t one of my favorite cities to visit.
In that light, it doesn’t matter if the cities and roads disappear. The thing I remember most about it is the very long bus ride from Queens to JFK. *shudder*
“William Shakespeare’s Star Wars sounds pretty good! I’ll have to look for it.
Good morning.
Lots of strange dreams, pleasant, unpleasant and confusing. I’m not sure if I even want to check the meanings. — I decided to check while it was all semi-fresh. With one minor glitch, everything portends a good future, and that probably explains why the dreams left me with such pleasant feelings when I woke up.
Anyway, I slept in. I logged 10.5 hours, but I needed it. Now, if I can just get rid of the back pain for long enough to pack up some more stuff, I’ll be good to go!
Good morning. Bill the Cardinal is loud this morning.
I just scheduled a vaccine over at the community college at noon. DP said he can backstop me on my other commitments, like getting James and Vlad to their Envirothon practice, if there is any delay.
If James wasn’t busy, I’d have signed him up, too.
What a sweet little morning floof!
So what’s on the docket for the Tax-chick household today?
(Just want to know if I should shut the computer off for lack of interest, is all...) ;o]
Choir at 9:30. Vaccine at 12:00. High school Envirothon practice at 1:00. Latter two are in Monroe, and I don’t know how long either will take. The Avalon is still at the shop - did I mention the Avalon went to the shop yesterday? - so maybe someone will drive Pat to work. Or it will get fixed.
Tom is likely to turn up; he often does on Saturdays.
Great minds, with but a single ... where was I going with this?
The allergies are ramping up and I’m not happy about that. Mulberry, ash and juniper again today, with the alert up to 10 — the max. Tomorrow is projected at 9.9 and Monday is back up to 10. Unngh.
Whether or not I get any packing done will depend on how many allergy drugs I can take and still function. :o|
Another full day of Family. Good on ya!
I must have missed something when my kids were growing up. Maybe it was the lack of internet. Favorite Son had his model train set and yard service work (started at age 12, I think) and Favorite Daughter had her books and dolls.
And I had a stay-at-home controller. SO glad to be rid of the constant controls in my life! *happy dance*
I need to go wash and dress and otherwise get underway. I’ll be baaaack!
Oh, I received a skirt I ordered after you looked them up. As the comments on the website said, it’s long, but if I treat it as an “empire waist,” the length is right and I don’t look quite as dumpy. I ordered another one, but they were out of light gray, so I’ll have to keep looking for a light gray.
Darned HanesBrands, they should have kept making the skirts. The tight pants are so unflattering for most bodies!
Times were different when I was growing up, too.
Well good for the one skirt. Did they say they were out of stock on the gray? Back ordered? Coming? Discontinued? If I’ve wanted something, I’ve often found an email concerning it was a good way to get it. Should I hunt down more sites for you?
Yes, it’s too bad about Hanes. Maybe Fruit Of The Loom will step up into the clothing lines. They make great socks and T-shirts, and the best thing is that their elastic doesn’t die before the useful life of the fabric.
It just had an X over the gray in size L. Oh, well. I don’t truly need light gray if I have blue and pink!
During the winter, I added a skirt over the leggings to stay warmer, and I discovered that, with the long-sleeve tunic from Walmart, the effect was like the gown-and-tunic I wore as a 12th Century Anglo-Norman reenactor. Only in knits.
Tidy, flattering, and inexpensive.
My kinda clothes!
OK. Keep the website because that X just means they're out, not that it's discontinued. They usually try to keep their best sellers handy for the people who buy frequently.
I've gone more to tunics since I've been here, but am now gravitating back to jeans, which is what I wore for so very many years from childhood on. Mother would order the flannel-lined ones from Sears, so at least we were warm when we played. We still had to wear dresses to school, and we walked 13 blocks because we were one block inside the limit for the bus.
I used to find a lot of jeans on sale at the Walmart in Henderson, but when they made it into a Superstore, I couldn't find them any more. I buy men's jeans because I don't have the curves most women have. That's probably from my very athletic childhood, when the summers would find me swimming every day. Broad shoulders, narrow hips, also why childbirth was not easy.
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