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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When slows speed up, do they get slower?
Slowing down to go faster is one of those old paradoxes that has been well proven over time. The original version I heard was “Haste makes waste.”
Or, to put it in the vernacular, “the hurrier I go, the behinder I get.”
I just went to Casey’s to get some honey for my allergies (they were out) and he said he would give me at least $800 for the Tracker, put a new engine in it and sell it for $2500. Good for him.
Good that he’s willing to buy it, and good that he may already have a buyer for it. He does, after all, have all the work records for it since I’ve been here.
So there are at least two people who are interested.
Excellent time to start a bidding war.
First come with the cash, first served with the title. ;o]
I got a filling in a front tooth, and now I can’t feel my nose. I think I’ll need to go to nap.
I had a friend who couldn’t feel her nose when she was drunk.
I couldn’t understand that, until I was in the car accident. Now, I can ever feel my nose.
But I agree: a nap is in order!!
You shouldn’t post when you have no brain, ‘Face. :o|
Sinfully soft kitteh on a sinfully soft rug.
Good morning.
I don’t know how this schedule change is going to work out, but the first night was horrendous! GAH!
However, just about the time I was ready to call it quits (around 1900) a text came it. It was photo of a glucose meter with the number “93” on it from my Favorite Son! That’s down from highs of 260-290. The diet and exercise regimen seems to be working. He has lost 20 pounds with 30 more to go, and I’m so very proud of him.
I’m so happy that just thinking about it brings tears to my eyes.
More good news when I read my email this morning — beginning May 2, we’re back to full meetings at church, meaning that the Relief Society and all other meetings will happen in the church building! *happy dance*
I’m excited about your son’s improved health and your church getting back on track!
One of the participants in the Spanish Volunteers meeting last night said the governor of our state has said maybe June 1 would be the date to lift more restrictions. That could mean we won’t have as much hassle for Cub Scout Day Camp and Webelos camp.
I think my son will feel better physically as well as mentally and emotionally, and will help him function. I asked him this weekend if he thought he could ever go back to being an employee, and he said he didn’t know how he lasted as long as he did, working for other people.
His work is diverse enough that need never be bored. A real threat in folks with ADHD. He’s content, which a lot of people aren’t and don’t know how to be. So at the moment, I’m very happy for him.
Look at that! A heavenly kitteh on an erfly day!
Thanks!
Of course he’ll feel better in every way!
And it’s great that he has work he enjoys.
Good morning, everyone. Happy Friday Eve!
We got snow yesterday. Seriously? April 21?
And for Environmentalist Whacko Day it’s cold enough for the snow to stick around for a bit.
Good morning. It’s chilly here, too.
Good morning, Argee. And happy Erf Day Friday Eve.
Cold? Didn’t anyone ever tell you that was a four-letter word? So is “snow.”
*tagline*
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