Talk:Geology of New Caledonia

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Did you know... that the most significant rock from New Caledonia is peridotite, which comes from the Earth's mantle?

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Comments from Candy

Hi Triton,

Here are some comments on your work, hope it may help,

1. Good to have clear tectonic evolutionary diagrams of New Caledonia.

2. Good to have a table showing related websites of the 'geology of Oceanic' at the bottom.

3. Better elaborate more on the location of New Caledonia in the introduction so that the general public can know where is it.

4. Can add blue links or more explanation on ‘Grande Terre’ part, such as ‘volcanic arc detritus’, ‘accretionary complex’, ‘forearc basin’, ‘angular unconformity’, ‘argillite’, etc. This will be suitable for the general public to read through.

Keep it up with your work :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Candyyeung168 (talk • contribs) 05:36, 17 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Comments from Christy

The simplified geological map is very clear to show the geological history of New Caledonia. It is easy to understand.

It is good to use the table to show the summary of the rock units.

I think the citation is missing for the geomap which shows position of New Caledonia.

For the evolutionary diagrams, I suggest that you can use the same font size for the annotations. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Christycheungkayan (talk • contribs) 23:24, 17 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

comments from lawrence

hi

- for the figure 1, there is no citation.

- the overall text organization is fine.

- the figure is fine with the concept of obduction, but it can be drawn more clear (add some black outlines for the plates).

A comment for lawrence: use "*" on the beginning of lines to make them list entries. And sign with 4 ~ ~~~~. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 06:06, 13 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Comment from Graeme

Hi Triton Chiu63

Thanks for referencing every section. There is however an unreferenced trailing sentence on the User:Triton Chiu63/sandbox#Loyalty Islands section. Actually images may not need a citation if they are adequately referenced in the main text. But still a good idea if it is based on someone else's work.

You can link a plural of a word like this: [[Amphibolite]]s giving Amphibolites. Same idea for aeolianites. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 06:06, 13 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

If you suddenly get an extra week, you could write about geophysical measurements, and also History of geology covering geologists, mapping, education and other human relations to geology.
You probably mean stibnite, not sibnite.
Also doi= values should just start with "10." and not include the URL.
Instead of using element abbreviations like "Ni", spell them out in full, eg nickel. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 22:55, 11 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Comments from Yuki

Hi Triton

I think your page is quite comprehensive and the introduction serves its purpose.

For the position of New Caledonia in Zealandia, I think you could outline the actual position of New Caledonia. I also think that you can add a legend to indicate what is each color mean in the graph for the simplified tectonic evolution of New Caledonia.

I think you can also indicate where Grande Terre and Loyalty Islands are in the map clearly as I find it quite difficult to read the Topographic Map. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wongtszyanyuki (talk • contribs) 04:36, 14 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Comments from Keith

Hi Triton,

Your page provides us with a lot of detailed information about the Geology of New Caledonia.
However, I think the diagrams are a bit rough by hand drawings.
The figure of 'Simplified tectonic evolution of New Caledonia; not drawn to scale, and only related continental blocks are colored. Modified from Cluzel et al. (2012)' seems a bit messy. You may add arrows indicating the movement of the blocks. You may use the same colour scheme in the cross section as your map view diagrams.
I think your page is quite good other than that.

Comments from Rachel

Hi Triton,

I think your article is well structured. However, I think you may put some more efforts on the diagrams especially the Simplified map of New Caledonia tectonics in Eocene because it looks a bit messy (e.g. uneven colors). Also for figure 1, the color scheme can be clearer because there are 3 different green colours that look quite similar. It would be difficult for readers to differentiate the three types. Some pictures are too small to see and you may consider adjusting the scale.

Rachel:)

Did you know nomination

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The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk) 04:37, 22 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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... that the most significant rock from New Caledonia is peridotite which has come from the Earth's mantle? Source: [1] page 171
- ALT1: ... that the geology of New Caledonia has resulted in large nickel deposits by the weathering of the ultramafic rock, peridotite? Source: [2]

Reviewed: Tina Stege
Comment: part of education assignment for Regional Geology at University of Hong Kong

Moved to mainspace by Triton Chiu63 (talk). Nominated by Graeme Bartlett (talk) at 20:50, 16 November 2021 (UTC).[reply]

Length, history and references verified. I like the original hook more as local geology of mantle-derived rock is not common. Daniel Case (talk) 18:08, 19 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]