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’ll remind you. Kathleen’s riding lesson was a success. Then we had showers.
Another tiny squeeful floof. (Or is it “fleef” because it’s so small?)
Good morning. (I think I need to go put another band aid on my knee bonk.)
The shower has been had, so in a minute, I’ll saunter over to the community room and pick up yesterday’s mail. I grabbed a T-shirt from the closet that FS gave me for “Christmas” last summer (Hard Rock Mordor) and looked at the size. I’m swimming in it!
I should have folded clothes and put them away yesterday, but I didn’t get that far. I’ve been trying to stay awake until 1900 but didn’t get that far, either. The alarm woke me or I would just be getting into the shower. Not good news. But I will muddle through it!
I have Plans! Plan A, Plan B and all the way to G. If I get that far. ;o]
You can only do what you can do each day.
Good morning. Tiny kitten is one of a litter of five Burmese kittens at a breeder in Cambridge, England.
The youth have been sent to put their laundry away. I will have breakfast soon.
I just walked over to get the mail and found another card from you! It was mailed Saturday and got here yesterday while one that was mailed the 10th didn’t get here until the 16th. Hmmmm...
While I was gone to the clubhouse, the TV and interwebs both went Walkabout. I was on the phone to the provider and it must have scared the electronics because they came back on about five minutes ago.
The Space Bags came so all the clothes under the bed will be put into them and then into a box. Maybe a large one, maybe a medium one, but at least they will get packed today. My promise to myself. If I have any bags left, the things in the dresser drawers will go into them.
Then, if I’m still feeling somewhat good, I’ll pack up what I can in the pantry.
Good morning. Happy humph day!
Kitteh says Wednesday better not try to mess with it.
Puppy was crying this morning while I was in the shower so Mrs. ArGee got up to free her from the cone of shame. She said she was concerned the pup needed to go out, but she didn’t take her out. So she just taught her to cry in the morning.
6 more nights.
Good morning.
*face palm*
Like my grandson teaching my dog to be afraid of thunder by hugging him. There wasn’t much I could do to counteract it, but confine the dog during thunderstorms. There is now a thing called a “thunder shirt” that serves the same purpose. I was not happy with my grandson for a long time.
Hang in there Times Six more! :o]
We’ve taught our pets all sorts of bad habits.
In other news, I got all the clothes under the bed into space bags, and while they probably would have fit into a medium Walmart box, I chose the large one because it has hand-holds cut out of the sides. The box is now holding all the clothes as well as a mega-package of toilet paper to fit the space at the top!
I have to take a break before I do (or try to do) anything else. I really needed some guy muscles, trying to roll up those bags!
If I’m going to get more bags for the drawer stuff, I’ll have to do it now, because I feel that “time constraint” thingy creeping up on me. The good news is that I have plenty of packing tape!
In still more news, I just packed up two and a half more boxes, but now, I’m feeling overwhelmed again. I’ll sit out the next half.
The Lawn Guy is here, so I get lots of noise. He would pick the day I go to the library...
Trivia - whelmed means in-water. So it’s technically reasonable to speak of being underwhelmed, whelmed, and overwhelmed. For whatever reason, in the U.S. we only use overwhelmed unless we’re being sarcastic.
Also, in India they talk about preponing a meeting. It means moving it earlier. Don’t ask me why we don’t do that.
My mother used underwhelmed all the time, so I never thought much about it until I started seeing it in common usage in a sarcastic way. but that’s even a lot of years after her death, so...
People in other countries say things that, when one thinks about them, are either totally logical, or makes more sense the what we term the “correct” phrase.
It reminds me of a story where an American was going to a meeting in the UK. In the office building he asked the door man where the suite was he was looking for. The door man replied, “It’s just down the hall, past the lift, on your right.”
The American replied, “You mean ‘past the elevator,’ don’t you?”
The door man said, “No, sir. I mean the lift.”
The American said, “We invented the thing. I think we should know what it’s called.”
The door man, still as unflappably polite as only Brits can be said, “You may have invented the thing, sir, but we invented the language.”
One thing I always thought was silly in movies and in books, was for someone to go into a country not their own, ask for directions and then argue over the words used. I mean, it’s their country, let them use whatever word they want for it!
One of my favorites is using “loo” for “lavatory” or “restroom.” I like they way they shorten things — apartment = flat, lavatory = loo, elevator = lift. And the First floor is up one flight!
And then there’s
Why can’t the English teach their children how to speak?
These verbal class distinctions by now should be antique.
Norwegians learn Norwegian. The Greeks are taught their Greek.
But use proper English you’re regarded as a freak!
Got any 5’s?
English is one of the hardest languages to learn and speak properly. Lots of foreigners have problems with it. The word “foreign,” for example, doesn’t sound like it’s spelled, giving some people an awful lot of grief!
The writing is harder than speaking. “Foreign” is an easy, uninflected adjective. “Forun? What does that mean?” “It means ‘not from here’.”
It only becomes difficult when you see the word.
Actually, I would have put those down in a game of Rummy 500, right?
Absolutely! I wouldn’t have been happy until I’d had the cards to beat it, though. ;o]
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