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Hello Zkelly1, I am an online ambassador for your group. You can ask me question on my talk page or try to email me. I will be reading what you wirte on Wikipedia and I hope I can help out. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 20:46, 9 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Tara's Review

A short and succinct overview but lacking in links and some citations. You do not even have a link to the iceland plume wikipage. A better title might also be better to fully describe the purpose of this artcile.

How do either of these models relate to the break-up of Pangea? How/why are these postulated to have led to the break up? .

You are unclear what "break-up" means geologically throughout your article---but I imagine that you mean "rifted/rifting"? It may be to your advantage to link to an article, or provide an overview in your article, about basic continental rifting, geometries, and how/why it occurs first of all. From there, perhaps proceed to introducing how Pangea was rifted apart.

I think that this article would gain a lot if you provided a map of Pangea and potentially the subcontinents that comprised it.

Where are your citations for the Icelandic Plume? I am unfamiliar with this topic, but is this really a theory or just a well-accepted hypothesis and model? Compared to Plate Tectonics, anyway.

Elaborate on what you mean by the "North Atlantic expanding". While I know that you are talking about rifting and likely ocean spreading, I could also think that it is just the water expanding thermally or rising due to sea-level.

What does the "natural outcome of plate tectonics" mean? This is very vague.

Flow does not create volcanism. Here, heating of adjacent lithospheric material by hotter asthenosphere and/or decompression melting creates volcanism.

Compounded is not the right word you want to use there.

How were these rocks dated?? Citations?? Expand a little on how these ages are meaningful, especially for the particularly model/s it supports.

What is this shallow source that you speak of? What is a "source" here? Don't open this can of worms unless you plan to address it, or link to it.

The last three sentences of the article are not cohesive and they provide three separate ideas. These should be addressed independently. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Terranova274 (talk • contribs) 18:54, 22 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

comments from Graeme

Hi, have you also seen North Atlantic Igneous Province? When you look at Atlantic Ocean it has about nothing on the geology, so your article could cover the entire geology of the Atlantic Ocean, not just the initiation of its formation. Perhaps this scope is too big for you though. I would like to see more information in the text about the different timings of the start of the breakup as from the animation it does not appear to be simultaneous everywhere. Also please make sure that there is references attached up to the ends of each or your paragraphs, as it looks like there is much that is unreferenced. The idea is that for every sentence you have, we should be able to tell which reference that information it came from. The time that you write it is the best time to include that to save having to repeat all that reading. When you ahve a book like Visualizing Earth Science please give the page number too! Graeme Bartlett (talk) 21:01, 7 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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