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Geologists 'resurrect' missing tectonic plate
Phys.org ^ | 10/20/2020 | Sara Tubbs, University of Houston

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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TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: canada; catastrophism; cenozoic; continentaldrift; geology; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal; koalaoil; mantletomography; molassesmiasma; molassessmiasma; platetectonics; reunitepangea; science; stolenplates; tomography; undeadthread; undeadthreadhere; unghandmoose; uofhouston
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To: Monkey Face; ArGee

The Monday is progressing. We’ve done a video about Pearl Harbor, a couple of scenes of “Henry V,” and Envirothon Jeopardy.


1,381 posted on 12/07/2020 7:49:04 AM PST by Tax-chick (Know Jesus, know peace.)
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To: Tax-chick; ArGee

The Monday is progressing, here, as well. The bed is even made, almost as if by magic. *heh-heh*

The shirts are drying, but I’m not watching the progress. The kitchen is clean and it’s almost time for my lunch, but I don’t know what to fix. Maybe chicken salad and crackers. If I get energetic enough. Otherwise, it will be an instant lunch, either a drink or a bar. Maybe the bar...


1,382 posted on 12/07/2020 8:58:16 AM PST by Monkey Face (Following Christ isn't an easy road but it's the ONLY road worth following.)
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To: Monkey Face

I had some leftovers for lunch, then went to Walmart with Vlad.

Now I have to plan a Cub Scouts meeting. Pat will come and help. Nice Pat, I’ll give him a cookie.


1,383 posted on 12/07/2020 10:32:02 AM PST by Tax-chick (Know Jesus, know peace.)
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Jake spewed.


1,384 posted on 12/07/2020 10:40:38 AM PST by Tax-chick (Know Jesus, know peace.)
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To: Tax-chick

Jake spewed? Is that like “Atlas Shrugged?” Or better yet, isn’t spewing Shannon’s job?

I got some stew meat at Walmart, but it sure was expensive! I thought the poorer cuts of meat were used for that? I could have just bought a steak and cut it up for what this cost. I’ll still get two meals out of it.

Pat should help you with more things, since you allow him to drive one of your vehicles.

I just had a ginger snap, because I’m all out of ginger tea.


1,385 posted on 12/07/2020 10:53:40 AM PST by Monkey Face (Following Christ isn't an easy road but it's the ONLY road worth following.)
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Jake usually doesn’t spew. He must have eaten something he found outside or on the floor. What a guy.


1,386 posted on 12/07/2020 11:29:57 AM PST by Tax-chick (Know Jesus, know peace.)
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Yeah, I don’t recall Jake spewing. That always seemed to be Shannon’s venue, so Jake doing it must be somethin’ he et.

And with that, I’m heading down the hallway. It’s been a long day.

See all y’all tomorrow!


1,387 posted on 12/07/2020 12:08:30 PM PST by Monkey Face (Following Christ isn't an easy road but it's the ONLY road worth following.)
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I hope it’s an extra good night!


1,388 posted on 12/07/2020 12:10:40 PM PST by Tax-chick (Know Jesus, know peace.)
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Anne Hathaway's cottage.

1,389 posted on 12/07/2020 12:39:18 PM PST by moose07 (DMCS (Dit Me Cong San ) 2020. Get it wrong and we all go down with Davy Jones.)
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To: Monkey Face

Tell that cold that if it doesn’t stop flirting it will have to answer to your FRiends.

Unless you want it flirting, of course.


1,390 posted on 12/07/2020 12:53:36 PM PST by ArGee (This is a tagline. This is only a tagline. Had it been a post, it would have been told to look up.)
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Otherwise, it will be an instant lunch, either a drink or a bar. Maybe the bar...

Sounds like an incipient drinking problem.

1,391 posted on 12/07/2020 12:54:31 PM PST by ArGee (This is a tagline. This is only a tagline. Had it been a post, it would have been told to look up.)
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To: moose07

Looks cold.

I guess it’s officially wintertime across the pond. At least Father Christmas will be able to get around.


1,392 posted on 12/07/2020 12:55:59 PM PST by ArGee (This is a tagline. This is only a tagline. Had it been a post, it would have been told to look up.)
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Evening,
We’ve been around freezing point for the last week or so.
And of course Fog....lots of fog.


1,393 posted on 12/07/2020 1:00:07 PM PST by moose07 (DMCS (Dit Me Cong San ) 2020. Get it wrong and we all go down with Davy Jones.)
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Very pretty. It looks like the sort of place where a person going to be murdered would live.


1,394 posted on 12/07/2020 1:26:56 PM PST by Tax-chick (Know Jesus, know peace.)
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Oh very much so.
Not that particular cottage, it’s owned by a preservation trust.
(Is the person setting out to be murdered or is it their final destiny?). :D


1,395 posted on 12/07/2020 1:46:58 PM PST by moose07 (DMCS (Dit Me Cong San ) 2020. Get it wrong and we all go down with Davy Jones.)
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Destiny. If you live in a Stately Home or a very tasteful Old Cottage, that’s it for you.

I would really like to have a hot shower and then wrap up in blankets and watch a Soothing British Murder and drink wine, but I have to lead Cub Scouts tonight. We have to meet outside in the dark, but least it’s not raining.


1,396 posted on 12/07/2020 1:58:18 PM PST by Tax-chick (Know Jesus, know peace.)
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To: Tax-chick

:D

Have fun at Cubs tonight.
The Murders can wait for one night....makes Inspector Barnaby’s detection harder.

Bidding you a good night. :)


1,397 posted on 12/07/2020 2:04:44 PM PST by moose07 (DMCS (Dit Me Cong San ) 2020. Get it wrong and we all go down with Davy Jones.)
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Oh, how quaint and beautiful!!

I want to live there! ;o]


1,398 posted on 12/08/2020 12:54:56 AM PST by Monkey Face (Following Christ isn't an easy road but it's the ONLY road worth following.)
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We could live there together! Dotty old ladies are a very British thing.


1,399 posted on 12/08/2020 2:21:03 AM PST by Tax-chick (Know Jesus, know peace.)
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1,400 posted on 12/08/2020 2:22:07 AM PST by Tax-chick (Know Jesus, know peace.)
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