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 figure you’ve gone to bed. We had a nice time at Lisa’s yard, although there was only one lady with her frontier life items. Her daughter and son-in-law had been in Envirothon with Tom and Elen.
Very warm afternoon. I had a lie-down with a cat about 4:00 p.m.
I was in bed, but text messages from the sickies. He’s positive, she’s not, but she can’t figure out to get hydroxychlorquinine, Zicam or Theraflu. Poor sickie. I told her to call her pharmacy and have it delivered.
Then my phone when wonky, and because I was on the edge of sleep, I couldn’t figure out how to get rid of the screen that was messed up. So I came out here to wake up enough to let the electronic part of my brain reset itself. It just needed to reboot. The phone, too.
So now, I get to go back to bed and play mahjong and hope sleep isn’t very far away. *sigh*
Good morning. I hope you got back to sleep. Jake woke me up promptly at 5:00. Great cat.
Correction: She is also positive. I actually had to be a mother and tell her what meds to take and to call the pharmacy for delivery, since she evidently didn’t read the previous text on the subject.
Then my Favorite Son began to text and needless to say, I’m a little hungover this morning.
As an aside, people seem to be leaving FB in droves. Mass exodus.
Good morning.
It’s 41°, headed for a 39°. Tomorrow morning, it will be windy and chillier when I head over to wash clothes. I’m not looking forward to it.
Now, however, I think I’ll go take my shower and see if my body, mind and spirit feel better.
It is likely to be good for their mental health.
Good morning. I’m sorry your daughter and the gentleman have Covid. I hope they get appropriate treatment and feel better soon.
I wouldn’t have minded sleeping longer, but Jake had other plans.
Enjoy your shower. My forecast shows a high in the 70s, tonight’s low about 60. It’s a sign we should do yardwork!
What a tiny little calico squee!
And such a funny little tail! LOL!
No matter what, the morning is improved by a kitteh!
I need to clean my glasses.
As for her SO being a “gentleman,” he rather falls into the “curmudgeon” category. She keeps marrying or moving in with her dad — arrogant, overbearing and abusive. I don’t have to live with them, and she knows my feelings on the subject, but I won’t interfere. I’ve tried to warn her, but she wears Big Girl Panties now, so she’s responsible for her choices.
Shower time. For real.
It was a figure of speech. I still hope they both get better soon!
Anything is a figure of speech when it comes to him. Though I really don’t think he realizes what a grating personality he has. I think he just sees people as things to be conquered, but not maliciously. Like the old phrase, “If you can’t dazzle them with your footwork, then baffle them with your BS.”
There must be some good things about him or she wouldn’t have stayed. I didn’t know him well when I went to visit (they’ve known each other since the mid-90s) but he seemed genuinely surprised by the scope of my knowledge. Often.
As long as they want to stay together, then fine. I think she stays because she doesn’t want to be alone. She keeps forgetting that that’s my life. Being alone, that is.
There’s something to be said for being alone. I get an hour or so per day ...
Birds are awake here.
She told me the doctor said she needs to be quarantined for at least a week, so I’m thinking he’s under the same constraints.
I expect so. Maybe they won’t be too sick.
As military wife at the tender age of 17, I learned how to be alone. Later, my baby filled my hours, then two children, and always, in between, I was alone. It’s time to not be, though, as age is becoming a concern. Not a big concern, but still, I feel like it’s time to be close to family, though I’m not sure I’d want to move in with them for any length of time. ;o]
Oh. I forgot to tell you! It rained last night! It probably only lasted for 30 - 45 minutes, but it’s the first rain except for a few drops, since February. Or March.
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