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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We’ll have another few years of Roy Cooper, primary legal perpetrator of the “Duke Lacrosse Rape” hoax. Cretin. He’s the champion of the teachers’ unions and the cross-dressers.
A cleaning crew of vultures.
But the speed limit thing was after Nixon’s energy crisis, which prompted today’s green thinking: “Keep it great at 68!”
Then, “dress in layers!”
If you live in cold climates, you learn how to keep the thermostats down and to dress in layers for insulation. Funny how the rest of the country had to learn when we knew from the crib.
“What are they assembling “
There is only one way to find out such information.
Pinging Darksheare!
Just what are the Vultures in TC’s area assembling?
Correction to #763: Last sentence should say “WHAT we knew from the crib.”
If they slow our roads down the revenue at the fuel pumps will fall.
Our Gas is something like 60% tax, that is quite a hit.
My fuel bill has dropped by a third since my Hyundai blew up.
It was achieving 53MPG on Diesel, Now I’m averaging 75MPG on Petrol.
With the push towards “Green” revenues are going to fall.
Dressing in layers has always been essential ‘ere.
Heating in ‘Public’ places has always been dire and there is almost no A/c in summer. You get used to having 3 layers and a rain coat at all times.
Except between May and July...2 layers and a rain coat. :D
Yes, well, living on an island in the North Atlantic ocean would tend to be a little chillier than living on a continent that spans from the pole to the equator! ;o])
I watch British TV shows and wonder why folks aren’t freezing. But I moved 130 miles north and though it’s considered high desert, and has high temps July and August, I’m having a tough time getting acclimated. I just can’t get warm!
Vult tron.
Very punny! :o])
That sounds a little threatening!
“They grow more powerful when stacked!”
Indeed they do! And they multiply exponentially!
Ohh...I see...
Best to keep an eye on this then.
G’day Darks.
Frozen fried fish fillets go a long ways toward helping the chips seem downright gourmet. A little “Four Monks” and there you are.
There is good fried fish, but that’s not what they had. They don’t care, though.
Am I the only one, other than ‘Face, who feels like going to bed before 7:00 p.m. every day. I mean, it’s dark.
old watch, medical parts coalesced....
But it’s not dark when I go to bed. It may be almost dark when I finally shut the light out, but unless it’s extremely thick overcast, the sun is still up. ;o]
Oooohhhh! I LOVE steampunk anything!
That is amazing!
Thanks, Covenantor!
‘Face
That is absolutely darling. I want one!
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