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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We have poplar seedlings coming up in the back yard. Epic Fail Lawn Service keeps not getting to it before it rains more. However, they don’t get paid any more for a difficult job than an easy one.
Well, well, did the letter come yet? The suspense is killing us!
I got an email from the vet asking how our pets’ mental health is. I asked Jake, and he got out of the chair that used to be DP’s, said “Mao!” and fell over. I guess that means he’s fine, thanks.
Yes, it came, no it’s not THE letter. It’s for Carlisle, which is a good 40 minutes from Cabot and that will never do. So I will tell them no and call Cabot as I planned to do this week.
Sounds like Jake resented the intrusion into his mental state. Instead of a fainting goat, you have a fainting cat.
We once ordered something when we lived in Houston - only to find the order envelope and form lying in the street sans check a few hours later. We changed our account number and so forth because with a good scanner and printer you can make a very realistic signed blank check from a filled out one.
So now if we use the USPS to send a check we always put the envelope in a locked mailbox controlled by the USPS.
We try never to send those.
I don’t trust people. My mail goes into a locked box here on the property, in a locked building or at the drop slot in the post office. Thirty years in Vegas has left me rather cynical.
Well, darn. Back to Plan A!
Falling down is a typical behavior for Jake. He walks into a room, says Mao! and falls down.
I don’t think I would like this company to rent from. If they had wanted me to fill their vacancy, they wouldn’t haven’t mailed a time-sensitive letter on a Wednesday, to a different state, saying I had five days to respond. Today is the fifth day, and they want the written response in their office. I could call, but they indicated written...
So Plan A it is!
PV used to do the Falling Down thing, too. He was just a hugh cat, and I think he just got tired of packing himself around.
No, they don’t sound like a good landlord. Maybe they imagine U.S. Mail is delivered promptly, which means they maybe aren’t that bright.
Jake wants you to get up from what you’re doing and pet him when he falls down.
Favorite Son sent a text of a Smiley with spew. I guess that tells me all I need to know!
Jake has your number, and that’s a FACT! LOL!!
Maybe the Right Letter will come next week.
Kitteh can’t figure out why I didn’t get the Right Letter, but he’s sure it will come, soon!
Good morning.
Even on a new schedule, the evening interruptions never quit. This time, it was a niece in ID. unngh. It must be time to kick it forward one more hour...
I don’t really want to go to Walmart this morning but Things need to be gotten. Now, I need to go take my pills and get dressed. This Pajama Patrol is about to go off shift!
Good morning. Kitteh is sad that your rest is interrupted.
I’ve filled the cat bowls and poured a second cup of coffee. Next time I get up, I’ll clean the box.
Kitteh needs to take care of my light work!
The interruption was by the extremely talented and clever Kara. I told her of my ghost and she said, “Tell him to go towards the Light. He’s got work to do!”
Good philosophy.
She’s pretty cool. But every time I thought we were done, she sent another text. In that, she could be my own offspring! ;o]
And you can’t say, “Gotta go - I’m driving!”
LOL! No, because I don’t even answer the phone when I’m driving! I can’t even walk and chew gum at the same time, so talking and driving would be...hazardous to everyone else!
Epic Fail Lawn Service say they can’t mow because it’s too cold outside. Sigh.
Ditto !
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