Talk:Volcanism of the Mount Edziza volcanic complex

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Section sizes

Section size for Volcanism of the Mount Edziza volcanic complex (35 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	6,297	6,297
Background	2,589	2,589
Eruption rate and composition	3,451	3,451
Magmatic cycles	1,056	66,078
First magmatic cycle	1,154	12,061
Raspberry eruptive period	3,494	3,494
Little Iskut eruptive period	3,194	3,194
Armadillo eruptive period	4,219	4,219
Second magmatic cycle	968	13,642
Nido eruptive period	4,919	4,919
Spectrum eruptive period	4,409	4,409
Pyramid eruptive period	3,346	3,346
Third magmatic cycle	1,166	14,035
Ice Peak eruptive period	5,809	5,809
Pillow Ridge eruptive period	3,327	3,327
Edziza eruptive period	3,733	3,733
Fourth magmatic cycle	1,049	11,004
Arctic Lake eruptive period	3,568	3,568
Klastline eruptive period	3,408	3,408
Kakiddi eruptive period	2,979	2,979
Fifth magmatic cycle	3,486	14,280
Snowshoe Lava Field	1,893	1,893
Arctic Lake Plateau and east slope centres	2,605	2,605
Desolation and Mess Lake lava fields	3,131	3,131
Kana Cone and Walkout Creek centres	1,858	1,858
Sheep Track Member	1,307	1,307
Significance	17	3,771
Indigenous peoples	2,047	2,047
Paleo-ice conditions	1,707	1,707
Future volcanism	1,144	1,144
See also	101	101
Notes	29	29
References	36	21,649
Sources	21,613	21,613
External links	982	982
Total	106,091	106,091

GA Review

Passed. grungaloo (talk) 20:44, 19 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

This review is transcluded from Talk:Volcanism of the Mount Edziza volcanic complex/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Grungaloo (talk · contribs) 21:26, 18 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Picking this up! Will ping you when I have a full review. grungaloo (talk) 21:26, 18 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Volcanoguy, another great article! I only have one comment below, but it's just a suggestion and not something to hold up GA promotion for. The prose is clear and consistent, the references check out (thanks for using page numbers!), it has good coverage of the details, good images, and no evidence of any edit warring. Congrats on another GA! grungaloo (talk) 20:43, 19 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"An eruption recurrence interval of 379 years has been calculated for the MEVC by dividing 11,000 by the number of demonstrable Holocene eruptions. " - I'd suggest a minor rewrite or adding a footnote to clarify that it's 11,000 years and why 11,000 years is used (as opposed to some other number).

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Pre-FAC review

Volcanoguy - sorry I'm just now getting to this - life got busy.

"The MEVC has a volume of 670 cubic kilometres (160 cubic miles) " - I'm assuming this is of post-eruptive material, but it wouldn't hurt to explicitly state this as it is not very common to see geographic areas measured in volume
I've reworded this part of the first sentence to "The MEVC covers 1,000 square kilometres (390 square miles) and comprises 670 cubic kilometres (160 cubic miles) of volcanic material". Volcanoguy 21:18, 6 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
"Volcanism of the MEVC took place during five magmatic cycles" - I'd rephrase this a bit - the use of the past tense here indicates that all volcanism at the MEVC is over, but as the article notes, the fifth cycle might still be going on
Replace "took place" with "has taken place"? Volcanoguy 20:15, 6 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I may just be completely misunderstanding this, but I'm not seeing how the dates for the periods of the first magmatic cycle work. If the Little Iskut conformably overlies the Raspberry formation, then how does it work that the dates for the Raspbery formation extend essentially for the entire range for the first magmatic cycle, including up to 1.8 my after the Little Iskut formation? - so further on in the article I learn that they're possible coeval or nearly contemporaneous. I think it would be best to mention that fact in the introductory paragraph for that first magmatic section
I've moved that sentence to the introductory paragraph and reworded it a bit to "Eruptions of the Little Iskut period immediately followed or may have been coeval with those of the Raspberry period due to the lack of an erosion surface between the two formations." Volcanoguy 00:50, 7 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
"As the lava domes continued to grow their slopes became oversteepened, " - is this grammatical? Something seems off here to me
I'm not sure. Volcanoguy 21:24, 6 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ready for the second magmatic cycle, will continue soon. Hog Farm _Talk 17:30, 6 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Hog Farm: I've responded to all of your comments. Volcanoguy 00:54, 7 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"The lava flows buried lag gravels" - I think you'll need a link or a short gloss for what "lag gravels" area
Linked "lag" to lag deposit. Volcanoguy 14:08, 11 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
"Potassium–argon dating has yielded ages of 0.31 ± 0.07 million years for Kakiddi mugearite" - but the article says earlier that the Ice Peak formation was the only one to involve mugearite?
I've changed the text in the Ice Peak eruptive period section so it claims this eruptive period was the only one involving the eruption of large volumes of intermediate rocks. Volcanoguy 23:07, 11 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Are the any estimates for volume of eruptive material for the fith magmatic cycle?
Yes it's already mentioned: "About 1.7 cubic kilometres (0.41 cubic miles) of volcanic material was deposited by the Big Raven eruptions." Volcanoguy 13:52, 11 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I think this will be good to go for FAC once the above are addressed. Let me know when you nominate it and I'll likely support; apologies for this taking so long. Hog Farm _Talk 02:30, 11 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Hog Farm: No need to apologize I don't plan on nominating this article for FA yet, but I have nominated the Big Raven Formation article if you want to take a look at it. Volcanoguy 16:25, 11 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Canadian English editnotice request

This edit request to Template:Editnotices/Page/Volcanism of the Mount Edziza volcanic complex has been answered. Set the |answered= or |ans= parameter to no to reactivate your request.

Please create an edit notice for the article, placing in it the template {{Canadian English|form=editnotice}} {{ArticleHistory |action1 = GAN |action1date = 20:44, 19 January 2024 (UTC) |action1link = Talk:Volcanism of the Mount Edziza volcanic complex/GA1 |action1result = listed |action1oldid = 1196963246 |action2 = FAC |action2date = 2024-08-14 |action2link = Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Volcanism of the Mount Edziza volcanic complex/archive1 |action2result = failed |action2oldid = 1238603147 |topic = Natural sciences |currentstatus = FFAC/GA }} . Thank you. Volcanoguy 17:43, 14 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done. (Sometimes people responding to editnotice requests ask for some indication of need, so it would be helpful to note whether it has been an issue in the past. I'll add it here since each of "colour", "centre", "travelled", and "-ize" are used in the article.) SilverLocust 💬 21:18, 14 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

There haven't been any disputes in this article (yet) but given that this is a high-quality article I want to try and prevent any future issues over spelling. I'm well aware that some users (especially anonymous ones) like to change spellings without discussion and articles like this one aren't maintained by a lot of users (I'm the main user who maintains articles about Canadian volcanological topics and even I sometimes have periods of inactivity) so I think adding the template would be helpful since not everyone is familiar with MOS:TIES. I also plan on nominating this article for FA sometime in the future which requires articles to be stable. Volcanoguy 22:52, 14 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]