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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Kitteh sez, “Waddayoulookinat?”
Good morning.
I opened my email this morning to find that iHerb had delivered the most recent order. Normally, when I’m expecting anything, I check during the night to see if it has been put by the door. Sometimes, things will be delivered at 2200, so I check every time I get up. They don’t ring the doorbell.
Nothing when I got up, then I read my email. Hmmm... So I looked to see if it had, by chance, ended up on Rocky’s stoop, and sure enough, there was a small package. I put my shoes on, grabbed my flashlight and walked over. My name. Her stoop.
iHerb got an email from me.
I don’t know how things will go today, but yesterday, I managed to get four boxes packed in spite of how I was feeling, so maybe today, I can pack another four.
I’ve been using the bookcases to stack the boxes I’ve packed, and was going to use the pantry shelves as well but they aren’t far enough apart to do that. I may be able to stack some in the linen closet, but I’ll have to be careful. All the closet doors are accordion doors and I loathe those things.
But progress is being made. Slowly! The bathroom will be a piece of cake, because it’s almost done!
Good morning. I’m going to water the flowerbeds in a few minutes, after checking to see if Shannon is lurking invisibly there.
I’m trying to get the food-consuming members of the family to put some ingredients on the shopping list so they can be given meals in the next few days, but they’re all ignoring me. I guess I’ll make bean casseroles if they don’t cough up some expectations before I go to Walmart.
I need to take a tall brother or two along, because there’s a chair I want that I’m too short to get down from the shelf. Kathleen and I waited at least ten minutes after pressing the button labeled “Need help? Press this button!” Then we gave up.
Good morning. Happy Friday Eve!
No issues with the cone of shame last night. 5 nights to go.
That’s good news about the dog. Every day that passes is a day that has passed.
Off to Walmart with a tall brother.
I know so many of the people at Walmart that I don’t press the button. I just go find a familiar face and have them help me.
Logical Consequences is a beautiful concept when it works!
I’ll take my pills and think about what to do next while waiting for the morphine to take effect, and then I’ll be up and at it. But where to start? Maybe the kitchen, today.
Excellent! Hang in there, Times five! :o])
We had an interesting interaction with a couple of our neighbors yesterday. And by “we” I mean Mrs. ArGee because I was working.
This property is divided into buildings with 12 apartments each. On each side of the building there is a parking area for 6 of the apartments. Each apartment gets a 1-car garage and a space. At the end of these parking areas is a bit of concrete to allow cars to turn around and to help with snow plowing when needed. That pad is right outside our garage. There are also spaces in the streets for visitors.
So, the reality is that most people must not park anything in their garages. Street parking is used by residents and some cars on the street are almost never moved. And at least 2 people in this building think that space outside our garage is valid parking. One just likes the space better than the one assigned to him. The other seems to have trouble finding someplace to park sometimes and uses this pad when they can’t find anyplace else.
Mrs. ArGee explained that we’re not trying to mess up their parking, we just want to be sure we can get our cars out when we need to, especially if one of her parents has an emergency. After some initial belligerence they decided they understood and adjusted their cars to give us clear egress. Some grass is getting parked on, but that’s management’s problem.
Of course, the real problem is the management doesn’t urge people to follow the rules. It takes about 2 weeks for honest, hardworking New Yorkers to decide “anything goes.”
Maybe the previous tenant didn’t have a vehicle or parked there themselves, or the place was vacant for quite some time.
I haven’t run across that exact problem in all my many moves back and forth across the country, but I’ve known people with that particular type of mindset. My biggest problem is that for most of my younger life, we either lived on military installations or in military/aerospace communities, and people have a different set of values in those communities.
I’m still surprised to find that people can become aggressive and argumentative over things that hardly warrant a second glance. Like my Left-leaning family members.
But I could write a book on that. I won’t so don’t cringe! ;o]
There was nobody in sight anywhere yesterday. Vlad helped with his height this morning.
I’m sorry about that. I go at 0600 on Tuesdays, when they’re still stocking, so there is always someone I can snag. It’s hard to believe Vlad is that tall. I ran across a photo of some byos at a picnic table having lunch, and in my mind’s eye, none of them are any bigger!
Did you get the chair, then?
We did get the chair. Vlad is just a hair short of 6 feet tall, and James is a hair taller than 6 feet. Pat stalled at about 5’10”, like Bill.
So is the chair a dining chair?
Or another chair for Jake or Shannon?
Wow. Six feet on those byos? So where does Tom fall into this mix? And here I am, shrinking...
Tom is 6’4”, plus all the hair. James is trying to compete in the hair department.
It’s a camping chair that reclines and has a footrest. We have one that I got in a drawing at a Cub Scout leaders’ meeting a few years ago, but some critical hinge pieces have fallen off.
I am the short one in my family at 6’2”.
Well, that was Dad’s height, too.
FS and Tom would see eye-to-eye, but you, ArGee, would have a lower opinion of both of them.
I was (am?) the giant in the family, taller than my dad by nearly two inches (he was 5’8”) and my tallest brother (RB at 5’9”) and of course, all of my sisters. Oldest Sister, and redhead, 5’3”, mother and youngest sister, 5’1”. Mother said I was the only one she gave vitamins to. WHY? Crikey! I was one of three that were over nine pounds at birth! LOL!
I would have taken Tom if he were around.
Anoreth has started a summer job for the University doing “bioinformatics,” whatever that is.
Tom is handier than most people I know!
“Bioinformatics.”
“Bioinformatics is a subdiscipline of biology and computer science concerned with the acquisition, storage, analysis, and dissemination of biological data, most often DNA and amino acid sequences.”
How interesting.
It’s a change from bartending.
That’s the public version. The real goal is to be able to tell conservative voters from liberal voters from birth.
(/tinfoil)
At my age ... whatever.
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