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 apologize or sounding so cranky, but I just realized how awful I’ve been feeling since Sunday, and I’m going to take my miserable self down the hall to see if I can find something to occupy my mind enough to stop the tears from coming. They want to, and they’re quite insistent. Ta.
I’m sure the gas thing will be sorted out before you go, and anyway, it’s in this part of the country.
Have a good night!
That’s a good way to look at it.
I’m reminded of my youth when James E. Carter was President.
I thought Carter owed Obama a debt of gratitude since Carter was no longer the worst President the US had ever had. It’s beginning to look like he’s being pushed to 3rd worst.
They’re hoping to have this pipeline problem resolved by the end of the week. Then there will just be residual delays getting gas to the stations.
Also, I think it’s only impacting the east coast. You should be fine. Other than prices, obviously. Biden took care of the “crisis” of gasoline prices being so low on his first day.
There was a piece at WSJ.com today about the "crisis" of Americans' paying off their credit card debt. Banks rely on the interest from credit card balances! Freep 'em all.
DP isn't good at staying home waiting for Whatever, so I expect he'll go on an expotition and answer the question of whether gas is available. I don't have anywhere I need to be until maybe Thursday.
Kitteh is wondering what all the fuss is about.
Good morning. I don’t know if anything will get done today besides the Bug Guy. I’m still a little shaken from yesterday.
So I’ll take a shower and see how the day goes from there.
Number One Grandson landed in Denver late last night to stay with his mom for a bit... Stay tuned.
I’m glad he arrived safely, and I hope it works out well for both of them.
And good morning. I have fed the cats and cleaned their box. My NextDoor feed is full of people going loo-loo over gas supplies, everyone screaming at everyone else over “hoarding” (or more likely, hording, because they can’t spell), while I have nowhere I need to be and plenty of gas to get there.
Jake wants to go in the garage now. There has been a mouse in the garage at least twice in his life, so he has to check every morning.
I seem to have forgotten what it was like to get up and get busy with morning things like coffee and breakfast and getting kids off to school. Now I have to sit here for an hour to wait and see how far back the pain will go before I absolutely have to get up and do something. *sigh* I miss the days of hitting the ground running!
A FRiend on Facebook posted a map about the gas shortage, so maybe it will be over with by the time I have to leave. I can only pray so!
Jake wouldn’t be the Guard Cat if he didn’t check for E-vil Mouses every morning. Good job, Jake.
I had an obnoxious pain develop between my shoulder blades in the last half hour. I’ll have to try stretching!
We’re supposed to have a high temperature in the 50s today, dang that Global Warming.
If the obnoxious pain comes back, cough a couple of times and take a deep breath.
Just had my shower and will wait for a bit to see what my body decides what it’s capable of. I’m slightly breathless this morning, so work may or may not happen. It’s left over from the last two days. Maybe I can do something if I take it slowly and wait in between tasks.
I’ll need to go to Walmart today, because we’re out of milk, but I’ll wait a while and see if the rain stops.
The most underreported effort to widen the gap between rich and poor is the effort to keep interest rates low. Most of us think of this as a way to buy more that we couldn’t afford below. But what it really does is force us out of passbook savings accounts which used to be a reliable way to grow wealth with almost no risk.
Not only did that force a huge amount of people into the stock market, thereby increasing stock prices (and who owns the most stock?), but it also forced banks to find other ways to finance their operations since the spread between loans and savings was shrunk to nearly nothing.
And why must interest rates be kept low? Imagine what happens tomorrow if the fedgov suddenly has to start paying real interest to finance $30T (or whatever it is) of debt.
As you said, Freep ‘em all. But not the banks. They’re just caught in the crossfire.
Mood gorning.
Er - Good morning.
Happy humph day!
That seems like an awkward position to run in. I guess you could hit it with a stick or something.
Yes and no. It’s true that banks are “caught in the crossfire,” but they’re hand-in-glove with the regulators and legislators, too. You don’t see many bank CEOs living in trailer parks.
I just sent something to your email. I didn’t know about it until I read it, but its what kids do for fun around here! ;o]
Yeah, well, I’m usually in an awkward position, anyway, so ... ;o]
I’m going to have to go to Walmart in the rain. Phooey.
Not dancing, mind you. I can't even pretend to dance like Gene.
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