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 ...
LOL!
I guess he’s the original, number one, first class Scaredy Cat!
It’s terrible to be oppressed by birds!
Now I need to go hang some clothes.
Stay tuned.
It’s supposed to be 111° by Thursday.
I’m off to roust out the Youth.
Done with the clothes. I have to go to the post office today, as well as Walgreen’s but the rest of my time is my own.
The bed still needs to be made but that can wait a few more minutes until the back settles down a bit. So I’ll have my tea while I wait!
I hope you have a good day. Cards are in the outgoing mail today.
The license plate is going out, with a letter enclosed, this morning.
I really wish the pharmacy at Walgreen’s opened at 0800. What’s the sense in opening the store at that time if the pharmacy is closed for another hour? Unngh.
Awww... You shouldn’t have!
(Now if you would so kindly consent to us stealing your thread, and then moving us to it from our present digs...We could actually just move, if you would allow us to...I’d just need to ping the Undeaders.)
I finally found a site where I could get the water hardness of Hurricane. It about bowled me over!
Hurricane: 393.3 ppm
Cabot: 38 ppm
No wonder it was so hard to drink! (No pun intended!)
Happy Monday, everyone. I have finished transitioning my old job to the “transition-to” person and am now busily trying to explain to people that, despite COVID, you can’t get a Lexus for a Yugo price.
Stupid recruiting industry.
w00t!
Happy Un-Friday!
Don’t you dare settle for Yugo pricing! COVID has nothing to do with it!
Back from Day One of camp. Only my big toes really hurt, which is weird.
I worked at Crafts today, which was easy. Tomorrow I have Archery.
‘morning. I managed to intercept mom on her way to open the front door because someone was there...
That’s good news!
So Archery today and then how many more days? I’m sorry I couldn’t last. Getting up that extra hour early exhausted me and I had to head for bed. I slept 10 hours. Unngh.
Erk!
Sounds like the time for locking dead bolts (the interior key kind) for the outer doors in your place.
Poor Mom. You’re a good son.
Three more days of whatever happens. After today.
I want to sleep 10 hours. I’d probably have to go to Tom’s house.
And good morning. Kitten is a Siberian and costs around $2,000.
Tuesday’s Un-Friday kitteh is a real floof! It looks like a Maine Coon.
Now it’s time to make the bed, then gather up the clothes for folding and putting away. Then Walmart. I think I’ll be changing the day to Wednesday.
I will be busy today, I think.
Wow. That’s what the Great PV (Birman) was worth back in 1976 but we didn’t know it and had him neutered. The Siberian is gorgeous!
I hope you can go to Tom’s house when Day Camp is over with so you can sleep 10 hours. I’m just waiting for the morphine to kick in so I feel like doing something.
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