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 can understand the delays due to Covid or bad weather or forest fires, but for them not to tell me it would be delayed is pitiful. Next month marks 12 years of ordering from them.
The email response I got had two words spelled wrong and an entire paragraph that made no sense including telling me to check with UPS as WELL as the post office! It basically was a “non-answer.”
Sharon sent me a text while I was at the doctor’s office and asked if I’d be “ready to go in 15 minutes.” Then I reminded her that we had set today as the day for her to “show me something she didn’t show me before.” The last thing I want to do is go with her today, but it will keep my mind off the fact that I’m dog tired.
It’s true that, if you’re somewhere with Sharon, you can’t be asleep in bed.
I agree that it’s totally incompetent for them not to communicate anything clearly.
This is a stranger month in a very strange year, and we’re barely into the month.
Now, though, I’m going to go take the trash out and check my mail, then bring in the water. Life is good! </joke
It may be a very long run.
A friend of ours visited Israel and found that the water heater was on the roof and used some solar to keep the water hot. It also had to be turned on and off when it was going to be needed. She wasn’t told about that before the morning of her first shower. She found out the hard way.
Iz this what Thursday lookz like? I iz not sure I want it.
Happy Thursday!
Global Warming will make all the water always hot.
Until then, I have a stove to make tea.
It’s Thursday. I have it on the best authority.
It’s 20° here. Twenty degrees warmer in Cabot, though, if that means anything.
The sun is up here. I’d really like to go hide in a sunbeam somewhere. I’m thinking of applying for a job at Walmart. I could make $11/hour, like Pat, and they could use the money to hire someone to replace me at home.
I’d probably be a shift supervisor in six months, what with my college degree and great “show up on time, sober, and don’t steal” skills. And bilingual!
Go fpr it!
The sun won’t be up for a while, here, though it is light out.
Well, well, well.
Another email from iHerb in which they apologized profusely, with only one word being spelled wrong. The upshot is that in addition to the $4 reimbursement for “2nd Day” delivery, they also credited me an additional $10 for the “inconvenience” of having to wait so long for delivery of the bulk of my order.
Doesn’t replace the things I need, but still... I’ll behave myself and try to be kind. I’ll also thank them.
Sun is officially up here, but won’t be over the local peaks for a while. 16°F
It's not just a source of hot water, in a drastic emergency, where the municipal water supply fails, it can be tapped for drinking water. I've been through enough erf quakes and hurry Cains to be Able to factor that in...
Ah, yes! I can understand the erf quakes and the need for drinking water, but I was only ever on the outskirts of a hurry Cain, and all I can tell you is that I really didn’t like the esperiance.
Yes, yes, indeed, the newest model of the nully nyumba needs the best of everfing. ;o]
Sun is finally showing it’s face over the mesa and the butte, (two entirely separate things, here) and lighting the street up like a fog light in the tulle fog. Finally.
It’s been sunny here for hours.
That little mesa shore is a butte...
*groan*
It’s very cold! I just went out with Sharon, and she took me to the most beautiful little state park.
It was too cold for the sun to warm us much, even though we were sheltered behind a building.
Sharon saw the boxes in the living room and asked if I had “ordered stuff.” I told her I was packing and the boxes were being filled, not emptied!
Poor little thing!
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