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.
(Excerpt) Read more at phys.org ...
Happy Wednesday, ArGee!
I’m not even checking on election results. I’ll wait for the Electoral College.
Maybe she wants to put it in her garage or has teenagers who would eat all her ice cream.
Jake is insanely happy with his clean blanket and sunbeam. Pat is up, so I can run the vacuum now.
Maybe we should make people fight their way through to the polling place to show they really care.
Or, we could do what I suggested over 10 years ago. Start picking our President with a reality TV show. “American President Survivor” or “Who Wants To Be a President?”
Nah. She lives in a trailer park and doesn’t have room for it indoors. I made room indoors. Darned if I’m going to have someone steal my food or pay for the high electric bills in the summer.
I just tried to find the booklet on the freezer, but it’s nowhere. I’ll see if I can find it online, though it’s a simple thing. ON/OFF.
That’s how my freezer is. On/off.
My PC is updating very slowly. Maybe it’ll be done after nap.
The gal just called me and said they were coming after the freezer, so I did a quick assessment to see what else I could do to make it more presentable, and decided to use some Awesome! cleaner on it. Yeah! AWESOME!
I checked online and saw that the cheapest 5.0 cu.ft. freezer is $300. She’s getting a good deal. Getting it out will have to be through the back door because the kitchen doorway is partially blocked. It won’t be, after today! :o])
“I have no idea why they do that.”
“Birdbrain” is an epithet for good reason.
Birds crap in their own nests.
More coffee...SI!
They were close races, and ol' Joe was trailing late in the game. Then, somehow, incredibly -- like a miracle -- two different people, in two different States SIMULTANEOUSLY at 5am "discovered" thousands of votes for Biden.
Like -- Sweet Mother of Prius Back Seats -- praise the dusty broom closet, and the SUV in the back parking lot; here comes electoral salvation, like Gandalf at dawn on the third day, with stacks and stacks and stacks of votes for Joe!
This is electoral history being made, here...
https://twitter.com/AndySwan/status/1323990699017228288
I somehow missed the Murder Hornets, but I suppose Large-Scale Election Fraud will do as a stand-in until the Asteroid gets here...
Aaanndd I'm low on half-n-half.
But it's a bright, blue sky sort of balmy California Autumn day, and I spent wads o'cash last weekend contracting to get a 10x12 shop/shed set up on the property. Slated to get installed early December...
The rafts of stuff evicted from the garage to facilitate creating The Pool Hall, is now very uncomfortably smashed untenably into the storage shed with the camping gear, fishing tackle, extra LEGO (I know, right?), and the canning, sewing, and gift wrapping supplies.
TOOLS et. al. are getting their own Special Place to live and -- at the advent of every Blue Moon -- WORK.
Here. Have fun playing with this:
https://www.tuffshed.com/products/#/configurator/
Design your dream shed/shop/garage/office/bunker/Last Refuge Against Insanity... whatever ya need.
OH, and I suppose I ought to extend the invitation...
Laz got fed up with Facebook and spawned his Annoyingly Overmoderated Group at MeWe complete with grumbling, political commentary, periodic ribaldry, the obligatory double entendres... all the stuff ya like about Laz without moderation.
Drop in and say “Hello.”
https://mewe.com/join/theannoyinglyovermoderatedgroup
Thank you.
Hey, y’all.
Marvelous!
I wonder where FB will get the funds to continue when all the conservatives leave...? BWAHAHAHAHAW!
I put in a request, but unless he’s posted on FB, and knows my name, I don’t know if he’ll accept me. Cyber Liberty is there under his FR handle, so...
And their water and food...
Hey!
How’s it going? Good to see you making an appearance again.
When we had a freezer it was even simpler. Plugged in, unplugged.
The freezer is gone. *happy dance* I was going to try and rearrange the kitchen when the freezer left, but they came too late, and I’m too tired, and the weather is making a lot of hurty things happen in my body, so when I get up tomorrow and have time to get my cute little self oriented, I’ll turn to in the kitchen and have a Field Day.
I have to go to the library tomorrow, and maybe somewhere along the way from the time I get up to the time I’m ready for bed again, I can get those blasted phone calls made before I go bonkers! ARRGH!
I saw Rocky a few minutes ago, and she asked if I had lost weight. It’s nice that someone noticed! I had picked up a little tea light holder (butterfly) and some tea candles on one of my trips to Dollar Tree and have been trying to give them to her for a month. Unngh. She has to leave the light on for Harley at night because he’s afraid of the dark, poor ol’ dog.
If you think I’m not making much sense, you should see it from where I sit.
Aftanoon S.G.
OK, I’m going to hang it there and see if Face can resist.
Could be fun. My PC has been updating all day, unnngh.
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