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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And the same to you. Kitteh views the day with equanimity.
This is the best part of the day, because I can get things done. The more hours that pass, the less I feel up to tackling anything that requires organizational skills.
Now, I’m going to fold the laundry that has been waiting for me. Then, when it’s time, I’ll go to Walmart. Unngh.
Later, the library. Then maybe I can just stay put until Sunday when I’ll go to church.
Good morning!
And Happy Friday Eve to you, as well. I’m trying very hard not to search out anything election related, but once in a while something pops up and if it has letters of the alphabet, it’s meant to be read. *sigh*
Election: The Trump campaign is challenging some irregularities. We may or may not know this month who our next President will be. I’m becoming more patient by the hour.
However, the GOP did the best it’s ever done with minorities and more votes than any GOP candidate has had in a long time (69 million to Biden’s 72 million). We have probably held the Senate and we picked up seats in the House. So a wholesale shift of the nation looks unlikely.
I think my next thing will be cleaning the stove. Or maybe it will be sorting laundry.
Thanks. I think I was waiting to read about what I suspected in terms that I could actually understand, so thanks for explaining it. Most of what I know from politics comes from “within,” and there’s no way to explain that, but I’ve seldom been wrong in my assessments. Your take on it is much appreciated.
I folded clothes, then went to Walmart and will shift some things around in the kitchen because I want a little more room than what I have. I’m going to need it soon.
Later, I’ll go to the library.
I put the laundry in the dryer and have begun cleaning the stove.
I hope you got that straight.
Kitchen is done.
Maybe, when I get back from the library, I just might repair that found lamp and get the other one ready for donation. It sounds fun, so I hope I’m up to it.
The brain, dontchaknow?
Yes. The stove is clean, now. I’m boiling some chicken to make a casserole.
Now you’ve done it.
I have to stop at Lin’s when I go to the library and see if they have a whole chicken. I really do want to roast a hen with some new potatoes, now. So off I go!
Well. That was disappointing.
Lin’s was all out of whole chickens. I’ll put it on my list for Tuesday.
I had to settle for a roast chicken, but they aren’t included as a SNAP purchase because it’s already cooked. *sigh*
I understand there are a lot of roast turkeys freely available on the left these days.
They’re stuffed with crow.
LOL!
I believe We, The People, are quite fed up with the Leftist turkeys to the point that that are not going to tolerate all the blatant attempts to install poor Joe-with-dementia-Biden, and certain, not by voters who have been dead since 1850...
Well, that’s annoying.
But wait. There’s more...
It’s just a matter of perspective.
Annoying is just a state of mind.
Don’t worry, be happy.
No, you’re right. That’s annoying.
New Elton John hit.
Don’t you kno I’m still counting better than I ever did
Looking like a true survivor feeling like a little kid
I haven’t heard any new music in forever, probably because the new “artists” are so lame. (Left-leaning.)
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