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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It seems the main business of the station is now lottery tickets. I’ll go somewhere else next time.
Utah doesn’t do lottery. Or even Indian casinos, to my knowledge...
I don’t know if you ever watched “Hee Haw” but Archie Campbell and Roy Clark used to have a bit of “That’s good, no that’s bad.” I’m thinking they must do this at FDA.
Well, it looks like masks can work for the general population.
That’s good.
No, that’s bad. we won’t have enough masks for the medical personnel if everyone starts buying hem.
Oh, that’s bad.
No, that’s good. We can tell people to make their masks at home.
Oh, that’s good.
No, that’s bad. The non-medical masks won’t help much.
Oh, that’s bad.
No, that’s good. We just won’t tell them that part and we’ll shut them up in their homes as much as possible.
Oh, that’s good.
No, that’s bad. They will want to protest Trump and stuff and we will have to let them do that.
Oh, that’s bad.
No, that’s good. Trump has let us give emergency approval for a vaccine that we’ve only tested on 10,000 or so people for a couple of months, “for emergency use.”
Oh, that’s good.
No, that’s bad (etc.)
Utah wouldn’t do Indian casinos. Those are on Indian land which is governed by the tribe, not the state or the USA.
Utah has a good idea.
Utah has several reservations, actually, one not 20 miles from here. It straddles the Nevada State line, so there may be a casino on it, but not handy. It’s just that most Utahns are LDS and they don’t gamble.
There’s also one in the northeastern corner, up by Flaming Gorge. It would also straddle the CO or CO/WY state lines, so there may be a casino there. I haven’t been to either reservation in a lot of years, but if they wanted to pull the tribes up from poverty, a casino is a good way to do it.
The Shivwits reservation is extremely poor, but in beautiful country. It’s the one that straddles the NV line. It’s on Old Highway 91. The Virgin River Gorge (Slot Canyon for I-15) by-passes it, now.
Like I said, they could both have casinos, now, but I wouldn’t know. Even though I lived in NV for 35 years I never understood the urge to send good money after bad. Especially since my first husband was a gambler who lost a lot. (I fact I didn’t know until well after we were divorced.)
Um...yes...being close to Navajo reservations, and having gone to school with Navajo children who were fostered out, I learned a lot about them. We had to learn about them in school. That was Utah “back then.” Not the nicest way to integrate them, but it was what was “done.”
James scared the driving teacher out of several years’ growth, but both bros have both got a certificate of completion of Driver Ed.
Wow. Congratulations to the Byos on their completion of Driver’s Ed. We didn’t have that where I grew up because farm kids got “Farm Permits.”
I knew how to drive but didn’t get a license until my son was a toddler. It was a “control” thing.
Been leery about this slew of vaccines, too.
I’m an autoimmune case, so shouldn’t get one, anyway, but reportage of folks having serious reactions have been dismaying.
Glad the redhead got her seizure med dosage figured out; getting down exactly how much is effective is the whole thing with those. Too little OR too much is bad.
I’m pretty sure that the last vaccine I had (Swine flu) is what triggered the CFIDS, so having another vaccine while my body is fighting itself every day doesn’t seem to be a very smart thing to do.
The redhead and I are Downwinders, and while I have CFIDS, she seems to have gotten the very worst of the worst health problems. Both parents had different heart diseases, but the redhead seems to have gotten both of them. She is so much sicker than I ever thought of being, but she can take meds to help her. Me and meds don’t mix.
I was very relieved when she sent me a text last night saying she was doing better.
Y’ever hit a pothole so hard your GPS yells “Dahellwazzat?!”
Does it count as Driver Ed if the instructor says, “I told him to never, ever, EVER, get behind the wheel of a car again.”
I told the GPS it was navigating and it could very well direct me around the bad roads if it wanted to.
It said it was going to stop navigating and start telling me where to go.
I hope your suspension is OK.
No, but the passengers do.
Lol!
Drama Queen texted and said she went to the ER with pain and shortness of breath. When last heard from, she said the doctor thought it was a blood clot in her lung. Nothing further, so I assume it’s being handled.
(Those who know the whole story of the last eight years will understand why my emotional investment in this is restrained. If she needs us to do something practical that is within our power, we will.)
Meanwhile, DP took Tom, who feels better today, back to Tom’s car at the university.
No, DP said the diagnosis was something to do with muscular pain, and they gave her painkillers and said to call in two days if it’s not better.
Wait, I’m confused. You’re saying Drama Queen was a big pain?
Maybe I misunderstood.
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