Talk:Geological deformation of Iceland

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Did you know... that the geological deformation of Iceland is resulting in cracks opening up in the surface (example pictured)?

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Review from Tanya

Hi Ron:)! Here are some suggestions for your page:

1. In the subsection of "Transform fault zones", you may add a diagram or a map to show the locations of Tjörnes and Reykjanes Fracture Zones, as well as the transform faults, in order to let readers understand the general picture of these strcutures more easily.

2. In the subsection of "Volcanic Rift Zones", the part of Northern volcanic zone is quite well-described. As seen in the diagram, there are other zones like the East and West volcanic zone, you may add some short paragraphs to introduce the other zones as well. You may also use a table to compare the similarities or differences among these volcanic zones to show any relationships among them. As your page's title is "Geological Deformation of Iceland", you may further elaborate how these volcanic zones relate to the deformation.

3. You may link the key phrases on your article to other wikipedia pages throughout your whole page as I have noticed that in the lower sections of your page, you missed adding the hyperlinks. It can help make your whole page look more uniform.

Review from Christy

Hello Ron, here are a few suggestions for your page;)

1. In the first paragraph of the "Transform fault zones" section, you have mentioned Tjörnes and Reykjanes Fracture Zones are "two large fracture zones associated with the transform faults. And in the "South Iceland Seismic Zone (SISZ)" subsection below, you have mentioned in the SISZ is known as the Reykjanes Fracture Zones. I think you may change the subsection title back to Reykjanes Fracture Zones or amend your sentence in first paragraph to avoid confusion to readers.

2. More details can be provided for South Iceland Seismic Zone (if you have time haha),as it is also a large fracture zones like the TFZ. For example elaborations for the significant change in the age and lithology of the volcanoes you have mentioned in your last sentence.

3. In "Transform fault zones" section, minor typos are found in the fifth point of "Geological evidences". (5. Because (of) erosion, glaciation and lave (lava) flow take place, the topography of a transform fault shows less relief onland than under the sea[2].)

4. You may add evolution diagrams to explain the plate motion of Tjörnes Fracture Zone.

5. Hyperlinks to other wiki pages can be added in the lower sections.

Christy Christyyc (talk) 18:06, 23 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Review from Wayne

Hello Ron, here are a few comments on your wiki page.

For the "Map showing the Mid-Atlantic Ridge splitting Iceland" (i mean the first diagram), you might mention what time the map is representing (such as the current map or certain years before.). Also the caption of the photo should be moved to the wiki page so that readers might not understand what is the map representing until they click on the map to see for details.
remember to restore some blue ticks on specific terms (eg. Dalvík lineament, Reykjanes, Kolbeinsey etc. )so that the readers can understand them even though you are not gonna explain the words in your text.
Are there relationships between those two fault zones? Which came first and which came next? The sequence of events is important.
evolutionary diagram always helps showing the geology and your ideas towards the region. Make one for your page would help a lot to explain the deformation and volcanicity of the area.
minor grammar mistake "Geology evidence 5.: Because of erosion, glaciation...")

Overall it is interesting to know there is such many deformation in Iceland QAQ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Consequencewayne (talk • contribs) 16:50, 25 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Review from Roberta

Hello Ron, here are some minor suggestions for your page:

Your content is very rich and detailed. However, I think more graphs can be added to better explain your idea as people who are not familiar with concepts in geology might find a little bit difficult in understanding the content, especially for the deformation part. For example, I think it might be helpful if cross-section diagrams could be added in explaining the ideas of rift jump model and those volcanic zones.
As you are introducing the geological framework of iceland, I think you can enrich your content by adding a small section outlining the lithologies of iceland.
There are some technical terms that are not hyperlinked, such as 'magnetic anomalies' in the evidence section.

Robertalau951228 (talk)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Robertalau1228 (talk • contribs) 15:16, 21 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Review from Perry

The following are suggestions regarding your Wikipedia page:

To begin with, please proof read your Wikipedia article, in the first sentence there is already a grammatical mistake. Eg " Iceland is the largest landmass (102,775 km²) and 'a' elevated plateau situated at the crossing of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and the Greenland-Iceland-Faeroe Ridge. There is also an error in "Excess magmatism produced from the hot spot gives rise to the 'think' crust of Iceland."
Do not link text without a proper link. Eg "Kolbeinsey Ridge"
There are no geographical context as to the location of Kolbeinsey Ridge and Greenland-Iceland-Faeroe Ridge, they also never appear in your figures.
Figure numbers are not suitable for Wikipedia images.
Odd section title. Since Wikipedia is a factual website, a conclusion that gives personal bias to a certain model is unnecessary.
Since your first section title and page title is nearly identical (Deformation of Iceland and Geological deformation of Iceland respectively), there is no need to repeat it and you can start your section immediately with "Plate boundary deformation zone", or you can rename it.
Self drawn figures can be improved with more regular lines

-Perry 11lawpt1 (talk) 10:14, 22 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Review from Jenny

1. May consider moving the first figure to the introductory section because your first paragraph is giving an overview of the geological setting which is neatly illustrated in the figure.

2. In both sections ‘Transform fault zones’ and ‘Volcanic rift zones’, the mechanism or model forming such deformation zones are formatted as one of the sub-categories of the structures, which is confusing.

3. You may add annotations to the real-life picture highlighting the graben and the movement of plate.

4. Check the spelling and be consistent with capitalization in the titles.

I enjoy reading your page.

Manngaa Jenny (talk) 19:34, 22 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Updated

This was an enjoyable read and the highest quality Iceland general geology article I had seen de-novo. Only identified an inaccurate earthquake statement, the rest was minor. To advance further than current C grade, I have started process of adding page numbers to most recent references, added some citations myself where statements not referenced, and added the convert template in case read by more international non-science trained audience. ChaseKiwi (talk) 20:54, 1 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Finished I think the essentials to bring up to date and try to integrate into a more consistent zone/system terminology with references. This may allow moving forward this article to more easily deal with more in depth tectonic background of Iceland while other articles on volcanoes and earthquakes in Iceland deal with the here and now.ChaseKiwi (talk) 15:59, 6 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please check name capitalisation against wikipedia manual of style which has different capitalisation conventions than many use in geology ChaseKiwi (talk) 14:40, 7 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi all, I do not like the sentence "The geological deformation explains the location of earthquakes, volcanoes, fissures, and the shape of the island." as 1. geological deformation occurs when greater and larger forces exert on the plates and within the volcanic systems themselves. therefore it does not "explain" 2. "island" should be islands?
So it should read "The local geological deformation informs the locations of earthquakes, volcanoes, fissures, and the shape of the islands, these deformations feed back into larger tectonic systems"
thoughts 121.98.30.202 (talk) 13:18, 28 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Could do with improvement but inform is wrong word as the deformation causes the location of the earthquakes, volcanoes, fissures and the shape of the main island. I think it would be a stretch to imply the shape of Heimaey or Surtsey is predicted by mainly by geological deformation. The more correct wording is that "The processes involved in the geological deformation help to explain the location of earthquakes, volcanoes, fissures, and the shape of the island." ChaseKiwi (talk) 09:09, 29 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

- Nice CK, however, I do think the giant plates pulling the whole place apart may have a little input in any such deformations, heat, pressure and the ilk.121.98.30.202 (talk) 06:36, 31 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]