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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Teeny tiny tenor!
;>)
That’s the peepers in the ephemeral pond across the street.
The various children aren’t having much luck finding something suitable to do. Some have been given Assignments!
Lunch first, I think, and then a shower before I dress for church.
Spring peepers?
Those tiny frogs in plague like numbers all vocalizing are far louder than cicadas.
Mom fell and was taken to the hospital.
I’m at work and can’t leave.
LOL!
Oh, no, Darks! I’ll put her on my prayer list and ask for a special blessing for you and the family.
Please give her my regards when you see her.
‘Face
Latest is “nothing broken, stay off it. Ice the knee, ace bandage, tylenol. Follow up in four days with doc”.
Oh, thank goodness!!
I was so worried! Your family has had its share lately, so I’m just going to keep you on my prayer list if that’s OK with you!
Please keep us posted. <3
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I’m glad it’s not worse, Darks! Hang in there!
Hiya, T-c!
Did you have a nap with a cat after church?
Are the attendance numbers increasing? Church was pretty full today, again.
There was some excitement, though. There was a little “lost” girl, maybe two or three years old and no one seemed to know who she belonged to. I saw the bishop for a few minutes for another reason, but he said that if no one in the chapel claimed her, then the police would have to be called.
It’s quite possible that she belonged to someone in the neighborhood around the church. A child old enough to know that cars in the parking lot meant people at church and people at church mean a safe and happy place.
I looked at Sharon when it was announced and asked, “How can you not know a child is missing?” Thinking, of course, that it was someone attending that meeting. Strange.
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Can we have this please, Darks? RB? Anyone? We really need to move...
If I knew how, I’d do it.
Anyone? Help
That is unusual, and our church was quite full. I had a nap, but Jake stayed in the sunroom. Now I need to take James and Vlad to Mass.
Since I’m going to be getting up earlier than the usual on the leg of the new scheduling fiasco, I’m going to head down the hall.
I hope you have a good evening and get a good night’s sleep!
See you tomorrow!
I hope you have a good night and tomorrow goes more smoothly than you expect!
Mysterious Star of India and the missing Blue Water Sapphire...would be a beau geste indeed...
Sounds fun to me!
All we need is someone to move us. Like I said, if I knew how, I’d do it.
Happy Monday, kitteh friends!
Yay! Mao-nday kitteh says it’s the beginning of another Un-Friday week!
The laundry is done except for hanging the clothes up. But as usual, that will have to wait a bit.
I left a note for Chuck about my kitchen light and the mulberry sucker branches that are threatening to overtake my house, the front yard and the sidewalk to my car. I also told him Cousin Doug isn’t coming.
How’s your mum, Darks?
“You woke me up for this? Another Monday!?”
Good morning. Now that I know you’re awake, I’ll send you a snap of Jake. He has a new trick that he started when the brown thrashers were oppressing him a couple of weeks ago.
Some young thrashers are around now, and the parents have moved their nest around front to the Carters’ juniper tree where it’s not right in front of cats all the time.
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