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 just checked out the Chinese buffet restaurant. They don’t open until 1100, but they have a very large menu! I was surprised! I may have to call them to see how good it is. Just...not today.
Another day, you could order something really simple like chicken and broccoli and see if you like it.
Everything on the menu is the same price, so I would order something I love like fried rice and maybe some egg flower soup. Egg foo yong...pork shar chu...so many things...
I bookmarked the place and will check out the menu a little better, then decide what to try. It’s a block away so it would be fun to just walk over and see what the place smells like! Kinda like testing a bakery by the smell — ;o]
We’ve been getting takeout from the same shop for a long time. It’s not the one run by the people up the street who raise hundreds of doves in their back yard.
If the shower doesn't take too much out of me in the morning, I'll get busy. I have several piles of stuff sorted to go into certain-sized boxes, so putting it in them is just a matter of doing it. I've made room on some book shelves for the full, labeled boxes, so they'll be out of my way.
It sounds really good, tonight!
How can a person not like cats?
Good morning.
I’ve reset all my alarms for an hour later, beginning today. Now if I just don’t anticipate them. (Maybe I should have just made it a half-hour earlier...start small?)
Now, I’m going to go take my shower!
Good morning. Jake made sure I got up. He’s a real turkey!
Laptop is a little slow this morning, for some reason.
My knee feels better today, but yesterday, I went to get up from here and felt/heard a muffled “pop” in my left knee, and it was painful off and on through the day. So for a while, I was “She Who Limps Twice.” Both are OK so far today.
The shower has been had, and I feel better, but will wait for a while before I start that packing thing. I WILL get some of it done today!
Good morning. The brothers are slow today, too.
Good morning. Happy Wednesday.
It’s sort of dreary here and we have a cooling trend, followed y a warming trend, followed by another cooling trend.
I’m sure it will be summer soon.
Good morning.
Lucky you to have summer. I haven’t seen summer since I left Henderson. But I need to stop complaining about the cold... ;o]
I’ll be fine...Once the Slows speed up a little. :o])
It’s kind of medium here. I’m going to the dentist later.
I just remembered that I have two places to go today. I can’t run errands and pack on the same day without physical repercussions. I’m not willing to do that. Experience tells me it’s not a smart thing to do.
I cleaned the stove.
I have a meeting this evening, but it’s on Zoom.
I made the bed, and will be leaving in about 45 minutes for my errands. They won’t take long, but I’ve discovered that I rarely have a day where I can rest like I should. Maybe that’s been my problem and I haven’t been able to see it.
I used to make it a hard and fast rule that if I ran errands, had medical appointments or did housework on one day, the next day was an “off” day. It was how I was able to function at my best, in spite of CFIDS. I’m not doing that now, and I need to. Because I know better!
I will get so much more done!
I think that’s a good plan. I will take it up when I’m older ;-).
It certainly helps me function at my best, instead of this “too tired to function” functioning. It was just a part of the checks and balances I had set up when I realized the scope of the disease. I had forgotten it because I “felt very good.” It’s only because of that day off in between that I felt so good, and now I realize that without it, I can’t function. So I will force myself to go back to it.
If that makes any sense.
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