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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Good morning. Happy Friday. I hope all is well with the world and that everyone has a lamp to snuggle up to, or whatever brings you comfort.
w00t!
W00t!
Funny lamps should be the Topic of the Day. Somehow, I just broke the lamp in the bedroom. Well, the wiring shorted out, the lamp didn’t actually break. But I need it. And right now, I don’t know if I have time to replace the wiring. I have the kit, but probably not the time. I’m so tempted to leave it behind, but I paid 50ยข for it at a white elephant sale in 1998, so part of me wants to hang onto it. And part of me wants a matching pair of lamps for the nightstands for the first time in more years than I can count!
When you get to your destination, you could look at Goodwill.
Back from an outdoor walk. It’s a pleasant morning.
There are so many thrift shops in Cabot, it isn’t funny! I’m sure Goodwill will be one of the last ones on the list! LOL!
One thing FS and I did every time I visited was go thrift shopping. :o]
Off to the library with Frank and Kathleen, against their will.
I’ll try to pack in a bit. At least one box. But then, I say that every day, don’t I? My bad.
:putting self in Time Out:
Vlad is baking Frank’s unbirthday cake.
One of the requirements of a difficult project is to take success where you can find it.
Open a box and get it ready for packing - WIN
Put some things in the box - WIN
Fill the box - WIN
Get the box taped for the move - WIN
Maybe there are others wins like:
Didn’t have to reorganize any completed boxes - WIN
Thank you, Vlad!! I hope it’s tasty! And with lots of frosting!
Carrot cake.
Good one!
They’re playing my song.
Just gotta get out
Just gotta get right out of here.
I don’t even know how to address that, ArGee.
There are a lot of sites dealing with it, but this one seems to be the most comprehensive.
https://www.ncf-net.org/faq-home.htm#7
If it doesn’t help, just put in “cfids symptoms” and you’ll have lots of things to read about me and my box packing WINs.
Mmmm...
I haven’t had carrot cake in a very long time!
In other news, I just got off the phone with AAA. Three day journey. Unngh.
I’m done for the day. I had an errand to run but stopped at Lin’s for some salad stuff, and as soon as the items were in the fridge, I called AAA. I only had to wait about a minute, literally, and a gal from Clearfield (up north, by Hill AFB) spent 35 minutes on the phone with me. Bless her heart!
Now I’m all worn out. Again.
The Cabot area was only about a day’s drive from Tulsa, but there’s a lot of USA between Hurricane and Tulsa.
When it’s time, you guys will make it.
Well, we’ll stop in Winslow AZ the first night, then Elk City OK the second night night, but I was trying to get the driving about equal all three days.
Going through Vegas is going to be the worst, but I think we can miss a lot of the ugly freeway traffic by going down Nellis Blvd (east side of the city) and pick up Hwy 93/95 through Henderson to Kingman AZ, where we can pick up the I-40.
I don’t even know how to look up a map today. Maybe if I’d had one I could have been more helpful.
So I’ll try tomorrow to be a real human.
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