Wikipedia:WikiProject Geology

Wikipedia:WikiProject Geology/Navbox Welcome to WikiProject Geology, a collaboration area and group of editors dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of geology. For more information on WikiProjects in general, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject and the Guide to WikiProjects.

Goals

• This WikiProject aims to enhance information on geology.

Scope

• All articles included in the Category:Geology technically fall within the scope of this project. We acknowledge and are grateful for the efforts of other projects dealing with specific areas of geology, such as Wikipedia:WikiProject Volcanoes, and will focus this project's attention primarily on those articles which do not fall within the scope of any of these related projects.

Open tasks and guidelines

• Tag the talk pages of all articles with which this project will directly deal with the {{WikiProject Geology}} banner.
• Tag the talk pages of any new articles with {{WikiProject Geology}} so can be automatically added to the articles page.
• Add |needs-infobox=yes and |attention=yes to the tag template as needed.
• Monitor Category:Geology articles needing infoboxes and Category:Geology articles needing attention.
• Monitor the list of recent changes to pages within Wikiproject Geology.
• See Wikipedia:Guide to writing better articles.

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Task forces

If you are interested in helping improve Wikipedia's coverage of the Cambrian explosion, please consider becoming a part of the Cambrian explosion task force!

Articles in need of work

Near Featured Article status

• Marcellus Formation is a GA that has an open peer review. Dhaluza (talk) 11:14, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
  • The peer review is now archived. The FA review is now open. Dhaluza (talk) 01:09, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

Near Good Article status

The following articles are almost ready for GA-nomination - if someone wants to put in a little work they could take them there!

• Cambrian explosion is half-way to becoming Good Articles and would benefit from some attention | Verisimilus T 11:48, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

• Snowball Earth - a detailed article that could be made into a GA with a little work - help appreciated! Verisimilus T 18:56, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

• Eocene is very nearly GA status, and is included in the 2006 Wikipedia CD Selection. A little work would take it up to the required level! Verisimilus T 22:51, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

• Ice age - a comprehensive article, needs considerable honing

• Carnian - very close.

• Impact event - Good content but needs a lot of tidy-up.

• Anahim hotspot - very close.

• Oil shale geology - nominated for GAN

Other articles

• Pages needing attention (Geology)
• Subduction currently okay, however structure of the article needs work. Also lacks information regarding theories of subduction initiation which strikes me as a neccessary addition. As stated on the talk page the current graphic is incorrect (even though it appears to be supplied by the USGS) I'm currently working on a replacement but its going to take a little more time (finals for the next 2 weeks) ClimberDave 10:32, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

• Palaeo-Tethys Ocean page. This page is not neutral regarding the usage of the term Palaeo-Tethys (or Palaeotethys; see Robertson, 2004; Robertson et al., 2004) or its interpretation for tectonic reconstructions. I could potentially help with this. However, it is a bit of a contentious issue.

• I'm currently working on setting up a Geology of Cyprus article, this will hopefully then lead onto articles about Transform Faults, Obduction, Ophiolite and Messinian Salinity Crisis. Plus what ever else turns up. MeanStreets "...Chorizo..." 14:35, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

I see most of these have been set up already; I'll look at adding some images from my fieldwork there. MeanStreets "...Chorizo..." 14:36, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

Transform fault exists as well, using the singular. Cheers Geologyguy 02:46, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

• There is only indirectly an article for talus (scree) and no article for pediment (Wikipedia was still the first hit for pediment though, because of the classical kind (pediment) ). I came to find out the difference between the two and saw the absence. 65.96.190.159 13:30, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

• Geoforecasting - appears to be a stub with the top-priority.

• Ring of Gullion AONB - some of my family live near by so I was having a read up, the article is a little weird I briefly spoke with Prof. G. Fitton about the structure a year or two back and from that I was lead to believe that the structure was simply an excellent example of a Ring Dyke resulting from Caldera collapse not "practically unique globally ..[sic]..when a collision of two massive plates may have dislodged into the earth’s mantle an enormous pluton that had intruded into the bottom of the crust at this point". The structure certainly isn't a compressional one but hopefully someone else may have a little more time or knowledge to figure it out. ClimberDave 14:43, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

Possibly sourced from this goverment website so maybe there is some truth in the article, http://www.ehsni.gov.uk/landscape/designated-areas/aonb/aonb_mourne/aonb_mourne_geology.htm ClimberDave 14:48, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

• Clay - The topic is deceptively simple, but the article is not, it is just simplistic. Drillerguy 15:15, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

• Effective Porosity I came across this article doing wikify work for Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikify and I didn't even know where to begin here. The article is so jargony and rambling that I can't make heads or tails of it enough to help clean it up. It seems like a good topic, but I cannot pull enough information out of it to even write an effective lead section. Someone with some expertise in this area needs to do some serious work here. --Jayron32|talk|contribs 16:50, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

• The Cenozoic article does not do a good job addressing the controversies surrounding the causes of the late Cenozoic cooling trends.

• Geology of Lizard, Cornwall - article needs references, also expansion and some better exposition for the non-technical reader. DuncanHill (talk) 13:52, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

• Lias (group) - someone had used this title to write an article specifically about white lias. I've moved the article to White lias but that leaves the "group" page looking for an article to be written about the group. Can someone here do that? It could then be linked to Blue lias and White lias and a few geological articles which currently link to the lias disambiguation page could be redirected straight to the "group" article. The articles on white and blue lias could also do with (non-commercial) refs. Thanks -- Timberframe (talk) 16:35, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

Done -- Timberframe (talk) 15:10, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

• Supercontinents - this article needs urgent attention because some of the definitions are wrong and the list of supercontinents is wrong. I have added some useful info in the discussion section of the article under 'List of Supercontinents and definition'

Stubs

As of April 30, 2007 the following categories contained:

• Category:Geology stubs - ~1000 articles
  • Category:Geologist stubs - 296 articles
    • Category:Paleontologist stubs - 107 articles
  • Category:Glaciology stubs - 48 articles
  • Category:Mineral stubs - ~800 articles
  • Category:Paleontology stubs - ~620 articles + 6 subcategories

Go ahead and expand those you can!