User contributions for GeoWriter
A user with 25,991 edits. Account created on 17 October 2006.
15 May 2024
- 16:4116:41, 15 May 2024 diff hist 0 Basin and Range book title - changed to italic font; removed wikilink for "John McPhee" - one wikilink per entry current
14 May 2024
- 21:4221:42, 14 May 2024 diff hist +12 Volcanism →Heat source: source reference ":1" - changed "url" to "chapter-url"; formatted "isbn" current
- 21:3421:34, 14 May 2024 diff hist +297 Volcanism →Formation of cryomagma reservoirs: source reference citation ":3" - reformatted and added publication details
- 21:0121:01, 14 May 2024 diff hist 0 Volcanism →Cause of volcanism: source reference citation ":1" - changed page range from "52–62" to "52–71"
- 20:5420:54, 14 May 2024 diff hist +94 Volcanism →Heat source: source reference citation ":1" - corrected formatting and publication details; web link of scanned copy of dubious copyright status on a university website - changed to publisher approved extract on Google Books - see e.g. WP:COPYVIOEL
- 14:2614:26, 14 May 2024 diff hist 0 Permian–Triassic extinction event →Siberian Traps: Iran - changed "Sea Surface Temperatures" to lower case current
- 14:1314:13, 14 May 2024 diff hist +51 Principles of Geology →Book: photo of isotherm map - caption text - added "and Europe"; changed "A map" to "Map"; added "(6th edition)"; added wikilink for "isothermal lines" current
13 May 2024
- 14:0914:09, 13 May 2024 diff hist −57 List of minerals →R: removed entries (Ramikite-(Y), Rogermitchellite and Rouvilleite) that do not have Wikipedia articles, which is the criterion for inclusion in this list (stated in this list article's first sentence) current Tag: Manual revert
- 13:5613:56, 13 May 2024 diff hist −3 Weathering Undid revision 1223612532 by 83.110.87.233 (talk) - text was already correct and did not need to be changed current Tag: Undo
- 13:4713:47, 13 May 2024 diff hist −8 Pliocene →Climate: removed wikilinks to "Pliocene" current
12 May 2024
- 21:2321:23, 12 May 2024 diff hist +25 Volcanism →Mud volcanoes: source reference ":5" - reformatted author name and added access-date
- 21:2021:20, 12 May 2024 diff hist +28 Volcanism →Lava types: source reference "Lava Flow Forms" - added wikilink for website and added access-date
- 21:1321:13, 12 May 2024 diff hist +95 Volcanism →Cryovolcanism: source reference "Klemetti" - added details of work, publisher and access date
- 16:5916:59, 12 May 2024 diff hist +4 Volcano →Tephra: photo "Tuff shards.jpg" - caption text - added wikilink for "tuff" current
- 16:4916:49, 12 May 2024 diff hist −1 Volcanism on Mars Introduction - video "Using Earth to Understand How Water May Have Affected Volcanoes on Mars.webm" - caption text - removed a full stop - see MOS:CAPFRAG current
- 16:4616:46, 12 May 2024 diff hist +11 Volcanism on Mars image "Lava flow from Arsia Mons in Daedalia Planum.jpg" - caption text - changed "THEMIS image of lava flows. Note the lobate shape of the edges." to "THEMIS image of lava flows with lobate edges (from Arsia Mons volcano)
- 16:3716:37, 12 May 2024 diff hist +4 Volcano →Types of volcanic eruptions: added wikilink for "lava fountains"
- 16:3616:36, 12 May 2024 diff hist 0 Volcano →Types of volcanic eruptions: changed "fire fountains" to "lava fountains"
- 16:3416:34, 12 May 2024 diff hist +2 Solo operations of Apollo 15 →Day 2: changed ""fire fountain"" to "lava fountain" and added wikilink current
- 16:3116:31, 12 May 2024 diff hist 0 Apollo 17 →Second EVA: changed "fire fountain" to "lava fountain"
- 16:2916:29, 12 May 2024 diff hist −14 Shorty (crater) changed "fire fountain" to "lava fountain" current
- 15:4315:43, 12 May 2024 diff hist +15 Volcanism →See also: added "Fumarole"
- 15:4115:41, 12 May 2024 diff hist 0 Volcanism →See also: changed from 2 columns to 3 columns - second attempt
- 15:3715:37, 12 May 2024 diff hist 0 Volcanism →See also: changed from 2 columns to 3 columns
- 15:3615:36, 12 May 2024 diff hist +33 Volcanism →See also: added "29P/Schwassmann–Wachmann"
- 15:3215:32, 12 May 2024 diff hist −7 Cambrian →Gondwana: wikilink for "cratons" - removed unnessary piping - see MOS:PIPESTYLE
- 15:2515:25, 12 May 2024 diff hist −14 Volcanism on Mars →Differences in volcanic styles between Earth and Mars: changed "fire fountains" to "lava fountains"
- 15:2415:24, 12 May 2024 diff hist −11 Volcanism on Mars →Differences in volcanic styles between Earth and Mars: image "PIA16217-MarsCuriosityRover-1stXRayView-20121017.jpg" - caption text - reduced unnecessary precision of date - the day and month probably seemed essential information about a decade ago, but now the year is enough
- 15:1515:15, 12 May 2024 diff hist +168 Volcanism on Mars →Tectonic boundaries: Tharsis Ridge as a volcanic island arc - added "needs update?" tag - there have been more than 15 successful missions to Mars in the 30 years since this idea was proposed
- 15:0615:06, 12 May 2024 diff hist 0 Volcanism on Mars →Tectonic boundaries: changed "Japanese Island chain" to "island chain of Japan"
- 15:0515:05, 12 May 2024 diff hist +211 Volcanism on Mars →Tectonic boundaries: Tharsis Ridge as a volcanic island arc - source reference - replaced dead link with an alternative source reference "BreuerSpohn2003" (edited with ProveIt)
- 14:5414:54, 12 May 2024 diff hist +13 Volcanism on Mars →Tectonic boundaries: Tharsis Ridge as a volcanic island arc - added "In 1994"; added wikilink for "island arc"
- 14:4014:40, 12 May 2024 diff hist −21 Volcanism on Mars →Potential current volcanism: changed "In November 2020, astronomers reported newly found evidence for volcanic activity on Mars" to "In 2020, astronomers reported evidence for volcanic activity on Mars"
- 14:3714:37, 12 May 2024 diff hist −8 Volcanism on Mars Introduction - removed piping of wikilink for "volcanism"
- 14:3214:32, 12 May 2024 diff hist −16 Volcanism on Mars →Differences in volcanic styles between Earth and Mars: reduced unnecessary precision of dates - the day or month probably seemed essential information about a decade ago, but now the year is enough
- 14:2714:27, 12 May 2024 diff hist +2 Volcanism on Mars →Differences in volcanic styles between Earth and Mars: changed "Hawaiian volcanoes" to "volcanoes in Hawaii" to avoid any possible confusion with volcanoes anywhere that have "Hawaiian type of volcanic eruption"
- 14:2114:21, 12 May 2024 diff hist −17 Volcanism on Mars Introduction - changed "their igneous rocks and minerals" to "their igneous rocks" - if a particular substance is a mineral, it is the same mineral everywhere by definition - so it seems redundant
- 14:1614:16, 12 May 2024 diff hist −4 Volcanism on Mars Introduction - removed duplicate wikilink for "planets"
- 14:1514:15, 12 May 2024 diff hist −4 Volcanism on Mars Introduction - changed "Both Earth and Mars" to "Both Mars and Earth" - i.e. make more Mars-centric
- 14:1314:13, 12 May 2024 diff hist +16 Volcanism on Mars Introduction - moved most of this section to a new section "Background" because it is about general concepts of volcanism not about Mars (and it is not a summary of the rest of the article)
11 May 2024
- 13:5613:56, 11 May 2024 diff hist −5 Chert →Varieties: jasper - colour - changed "even green" to "green" current
- 13:3413:34, 11 May 2024 diff hist 0 Petroleum seep Introduction - moved a source reference citation to after punctuation - see MOS:REFPUNCT current
10 May 2024
- 19:0819:08, 10 May 2024 diff hist 0 Amblygonite →History: "Amblygonite-Montebrasite" - changed to lower case current
9 May 2024
- 15:1215:12, 9 May 2024 diff hist +1 Mineral →Crystal structure and habit: "fiveling" - restored plural noun "fivelings" current
8 May 2024
- 22:0922:09, 8 May 2024 diff hist +273 Talk:Volcanism →Asteroids and comets?: my reply 3 current
- 21:5621:56, 8 May 2024 diff hist +11 Talk:Volcanism →Asteroids and comets?: my reply 2
- 21:4821:48, 8 May 2024 diff hist +1 Volcanism Introduction - "a solid-surface astronomical body" - changed "such as a planet or moons" to "such as a planet or a moon" - tweaked for better grammar/syntax
- 21:4521:45, 8 May 2024 diff hist +1,449 Talk:Volcanism →Asteroids and comets?: volcanism on asteroids and comets
- 20:4720:47, 8 May 2024 diff hist −3 Volcanism →Decompression melting: "Earle, Steven" source reference citation - changed from "cite journal" template to "cite book" template - this source is an ebook not a journal
- 19:4019:40, 8 May 2024 diff hist 0 Gondwana changed "Late Silurian" to "late Silurian" (informal subdivision); moved wikilink for "Silurian" current
6 May 2024
- 12:2112:21, 6 May 2024 diff hist +12 Mauna Kea Undid revision 1222506359 by 147.161.172.104 (talk) - reverted unit conversion current Tag: Undo
- 12:0212:02, 6 May 2024 diff hist 0 Mantle oxidation state →Implications for Diamond Formation: section heading - changed to sentence case - see MOS:SECTIONHEAD current
- 12:0112:01, 6 May 2024 diff hist +2 Mantle oxidation state →Implications for Diamond Formation: diagram image "Diamond-diamond macle1.jpg" - size parameter - changed "424x424px" to "upright=1.8" - see WP:IMAGESIZE
- 11:5711:57, 6 May 2024 diff hist −10 Mantle oxidation state →Implications for Diamond Formation: photo "Diamond-diamond macle1.jpg" - changed size to default
- 11:5611:56, 6 May 2024 diff hist −35 Mantle oxidation state →Transition zone: photo "Garnet-Group-215473.jpg" - caption text - shortened; changed image size to default
- 11:5311:53, 6 May 2024 diff hist +3 Mantle oxidation state Introduction - image "Oxygen fugacity range where cation pairs dominate.png" - size parameter - changed "388x388px" to "upright=1.35" - see WP:IMAGESIZE
- 11:5111:51, 6 May 2024 diff hist −14 Mantle oxidation state →Thermodynamic description of oxidation state: removed "we can write" - See MOS:WE
- 11:4811:48, 6 May 2024 diff hist −4 Mantle oxidation state →Thermodynamic description of oxidation state: removed duplicate wikilink for "fugacity"
- 11:4711:47, 6 May 2024 diff hist +4 Mantle oxidation state added wikilink for "Earth's mantle"
- 11:4611:46, 6 May 2024 diff hist +1 Mantle oxidation state Introduction - added a blank line before start of main text (in wikitext)
- 11:2911:29, 6 May 2024 diff hist +11 Tremadocian →Regional stages: changed "In Baltic region" to "In the Baltic region,"; changed "Pakerort stage (older) and Varangu stage (younger)" to "the Pakerort stage (lower) and the Varangu stage (upper)"
- 11:2611:26, 6 May 2024 diff hist +27 Tremadocian →GSSP: changed "FAD" to "the first appearance datum" with wikilink
- 11:2011:20, 6 May 2024 diff hist +23 Continent →Separation: addedc wikilink for "Physiographically" current
- 11:1711:17, 6 May 2024 diff hist −21 Continent →Number: table - wikilink for "Physiographic regions" - removed unnecessary piping - see MOS:PIPESTYLE
5 May 2024
- 19:4319:43, 5 May 2024 diff hist −6 Planetary science Introduction - photo "Pluto's_Sputnik_Planum_geologic_map_(cropped).jpg" - removed size parameter "300px"
- 19:4019:40, 5 May 2024 diff hist +6 Travertine photo - caption text - changed "€1 coin" to "1 euro coin" with wikilink for "euro" current
- 15:1215:12, 5 May 2024 diff hist +8 Pennsylvanian (geology) Introduction - changed "coal-producing beds" to "coal beds" with wikilink for "beds" current
- 15:0815:08, 5 May 2024 diff hist +32 Pennsylvanian (geology) Introduction - changed word order
- 14:0114:01, 5 May 2024 diff hist −22 Antarctic Plate →Land: removed "Shetland Plate" - the land parts of this plate are already listed as "South Shetland Islands" current
- 13:5613:56, 5 May 2024 diff hist −75 Antarctic Plate →Land: removed "(Antarctic Treaty System)" - seems irrelevant
- 13:5413:54, 5 May 2024 diff hist −29 Antarctic Plate →Land: removed "(Antarctic Treaty System)" - seems irrelevant
4 May 2024
- 16:4916:49, 4 May 2024 diff hist +4 Structural basin Introduction - added wikilink for "tectonic" current
- 16:4716:47, 4 May 2024 diff hist +18 Structural basin Introduction - merged two sentences; changed "Some" to "Some structural basins"
- 16:4516:45, 4 May 2024 diff hist +46 Structural basin Introduction - changed "warping (folding) of previously flat-lying strata" to "warping (folding) of previously flat-lying strata into a syncline fold"; changed "Elongated structural basins are also known as synclines" to "Elongated structural basins are a type of geological trough"
- 15:4815:48, 4 May 2024 diff hist −2 Volcanism "Lava types" section - moved from "Gentle/explosive activity" section to its own section
- 15:1115:11, 4 May 2024 diff hist +2 Global Standard Stratigraphic Age Precambrian geological record - changed "The geologic record becomes spotty prior to about 539 million years ago." to "The geologic record is more restricted before about 539 million years ago." current
3 May 2024
- 21:1221:12, 3 May 2024 diff hist −18 Wilpena Pound photos - caption text - removed full stops - see MOS:CAPFRAG ; other copyedits current
- 20:1320:13, 3 May 2024 diff hist −2 Paleogene Introduction - changed "period" to time" - three occurrences of period in one sentence is probably enough current
- 20:0220:02, 3 May 2024 diff hist −3 List of tectonic plates →Indo-Australian Plate: removed some commas current
- 19:5619:56, 3 May 2024 diff hist −48 Chalcedony →History: prehistoric cave paintings - copyedits current
2 May 2024
- 12:5712:57, 2 May 2024 diff hist −574 Talk:History of paleontology reverted edit by 41.113.149.161 - was not in scope of the intended use of this talk page current Tag: Manual revert
1 May 2024
- 20:3120:31, 1 May 2024 diff hist +23 Syncline →See also: added "Structural basin" current
- 20:3020:30, 1 May 2024 diff hist +36 Wilpena Pound created "See also" section and added entry for "Structural basin"
- 20:2020:20, 1 May 2024 diff hist +193 Volcanologist Undid revision 1221587965 by Viteklego1! (talk) - not an improvement current Tag: Undo
- 20:0420:04, 1 May 2024 diff hist 0 User:GeoWriter →Edit count progress: updated edit count to 25,900 current
- 20:0320:03, 1 May 2024 diff hist 0 User:GeoWriter User boxes - updated "Wikipedia edit count" - set to "over 25,900"
- 20:0020:00, 1 May 2024 diff hist +4 Neoproterozoic →Paleobiology: Tonian keratose sponge fossils - changed "reefs dating back to 890 million years" to "reefs dated to c. 890 million years" (using "circa template") current
- 19:3919:39, 1 May 2024 diff hist −6 Eclogite Short description - shortened "Dense metamorphic rock ..." to "Metamorphic rock ..." - "Dense" seems unnecessary (and is not mentioned in the article text) current
- 19:3319:33, 1 May 2024 diff hist −67 Ordovician →ICS (global) subdivisions: IUGS table - changed formatting to clarify that it is not related to the British stages and ages section; moved text to table caption current
- 19:1019:10, 1 May 2024 diff hist +131 List of geologists Undid revision 1221741043 by 199.104.209.22 (talk) current Tag: Undo
- 14:2814:28, 1 May 2024 diff hist +178 Neoproterozoic →Paleobiology: "In addition to Ediacaran biota, two other types of biota were discovered in China. The Doushantuo Formation (of Ediacaran age) preserves fossils..." - added "contradictory" tag
- 14:1714:17, 1 May 2024 diff hist −27 Ediacaran biota →See also: removed "Doushantuo Formation" because it is already wikilinked in a preceding section - see MOS:NOTSEEALSO current
- 14:1514:15, 1 May 2024 diff hist +55 Neoproterozoic →Paleobiology: "Doushantuo Formation" - added "(of Ediacaran age)"; "Huainan biota" - added "(of late Tonian age)"; "even earlier in the Neoproterozoic" - added "early Tonian"
- 14:0714:07, 1 May 2024 diff hist +1 Neoproterozoic →Paleobiology: changed "Hainan biota" to "Huainan biota"
- 13:5313:53, 1 May 2024 diff hist 0 Eurasian Plate reverted edits by 2403:4800:9430:9e71:a40a:de5f:330:db88 current Tag: Manual revert
30 April 2024
- 23:4323:43, 30 April 2024 diff hist +24 Taconic orogeny →See also: added "Taconic Mountains" current
- 14:2414:24, 30 April 2024 diff hist −12 Quartz →Occurrence: "largest documented single crystal of quartz" - dimensions - formatted using "convert" template instead of "val" template
- 14:1314:13, 30 April 2024 diff hist +8 Iceland hotspot →Gravimetry/Geoid: "70 m" - formatted using "cvt" template
- 14:1114:11, 30 April 2024 diff hist −5 Iceland hotspot →Geological history: changed "have shifted" to "shifted"
- 14:1014:10, 30 April 2024 diff hist 0 Iceland hotspot →Geological history: swapped ages - oldest before youngest (to follow usual geological age convention
- 13:4813:48, 30 April 2024 diff hist 0 Iceland hotspot →Geological history: earliest volcanic rocks - swap ages - oldest before youngest (to follow usual geological age convention)
- 13:4313:43, 30 April 2024 diff hist +4 Iceland hotspot →Theories of causation: added wikilink for "seismic wave"
- 13:3313:33, 30 April 2024 diff hist −4 Teschenite →Location of occurrence: removed duplicate wikilink for "olivine"
29 April 2024
- 23:4923:49, 29 April 2024 diff hist −19 Teschenite removed category "Rocks" - already in a subcategory
- 23:4623:46, 29 April 2024 diff hist −2 Teschenite →Geological composition: changed "Minerals related to teschenite" and "minerals of the teschenite association" to "Rocks related to teschenite" and "rocks of the teschenite association" respectively
- 23:3123:31, 29 April 2024 diff hist +22 Teschenite wikilink for "Josef Klvaňa" - changed to interlanguage link to Czech Wikipedia
- 23:2823:28, 29 April 2024 diff hist +22 Teschenite wikilink for "Ludwig Hohenegger" - changed to interlanguage link to Czech Wikipedia
- 23:2423:24, 29 April 2024 diff hist +3 Teschenite photo "Cieszynit-skala.jpg" - caption text - changed from "A sample of Polish teschenite" to "Sample of teschenite from Poland"
- 23:1123:11, 29 April 2024 diff hist −5 Teschenite changed "Crinanite" to "crinanite"; changed "Teschenite" to "teschenite"; removed "also"
- 23:0823:08, 29 April 2024 diff hist +1 Teschenite →Location of occurrence: "Historically" - added a comma; hyphenated "olivine rich"
- 23:0723:07, 29 April 2024 diff hist +6 Teschenite →Location of occurrence: changed "in the basin of the Ostravice" to "in the basin of the Ostravice river"
- 23:0423:04, 29 April 2024 diff hist +6 Teschenite →Location of occurrence: changed "from edges of Moravia" to "from the borders of Moravia"
- 23:0323:03, 29 April 2024 diff hist −5 Teschenite →Location of occurrence: changed "documented in" to "found in"
- 23:0223:02, 29 April 2024 diff hist 0 Teschenite →Geological composition: changed "Lugarite" to "lugarite"
- 23:0123:01, 29 April 2024 diff hist 0 Teschenite →Geological composition: changed "elements" to "minerals"
- 23:0023:00, 29 April 2024 diff hist −17 Teschenite Introduction - copyedits
28 April 2024
- 17:1317:13, 28 April 2024 diff hist 0 Alwyn Williams (geologist) →Research: corrected typo spelling error: Paeleobiology ---> Palaeobiology current
- 16:5616:56, 28 April 2024 diff hist +4 Cooperoceras added wikilink for "Urals" current
- 16:5516:55, 28 April 2024 diff hist +4 Cooperoceras changed "N America" to "North America"
- 16:5516:55, 28 April 2024 diff hist +4 Cooperoceras added wikilink for "Lower Permian"
- 16:5416:54, 28 April 2024 diff hist +3 Cooperoceras Infobox - Temporal range - changed "Pennsylvanian–Permian" to ""Pennsylvanian–Cisuralian"
- 16:5016:50, 28 April 2024 diff hist +14 Cooperoceras Infobox - range - changed "Permian" to "Pennsylvanian–Permian
- 16:4716:47, 28 April 2024 diff hist +372 Cooperoceras Pennsylvanian rocks in Illinois - added source reference "Tucker1977" (edited with ProveIt); split a paragraph
- 16:3316:33, 28 April 2024 diff hist +112 Cooperoceras added "Cooperoceras has also been found in rocks of Pennsylvanian age in Illinois."
- 15:5915:59, 28 April 2024 diff hist +35 Prasiolite "Since 1950, almost all natural prasiolite has come from a small Brazilian mine" - added "citation needed" tag current
- 15:5015:50, 28 April 2024 diff hist +4 Amethyst →Hue and tone: added wikilink for "hues" current
27 April 2024
- 18:2718:27, 27 April 2024 diff hist +7 Earthquake →Reverse faults: "megathrust earthquakes" - clarified
- 18:2518:25, 27 April 2024 diff hist −26 Earthquake →Reverse faults: moved wikilink for "convergent boundary"
- 18:2118:21, 27 April 2024 diff hist +33 Earthquake →See also: added annotated link for "Alpide belt"
- 15:5315:53, 27 April 2024 diff hist +47 Mud volcano →Other Asian locations: "Minbu" - copyedits; clarified "Naga" - changed "(Considered to be the refuge of Nāga)" to "There is a local belief that these mud volcanoes are the refuge of mythological Nāga." current
- 15:3815:38, 27 April 2024 diff hist −98 Mud volcano →Locations: removed map image "Minbu_Township.svg" - almost meaningless, not an improvement
- 14:3514:35, 27 April 2024 diff hist +23 Baltic Shield →See also: added "Shield (geology)"
- 14:1114:11, 27 April 2024 diff hist +2 Baltic Shield →Denudation chronology: source reference "Lindberg" - fixed wiki text formatting
- 14:0914:09, 27 April 2024 diff hist +1 Baltic Shield →Denudation chronology: Quaternary - changed "last 2,5 million years" to "last 2,58 million years"
- 14:0614:06, 27 April 2024 diff hist 0 Baltic Shield age ranges - changed order to follow the usual geological history convention of older to younger
26 April 2024
- 15:2315:23, 26 April 2024 diff hist −1,093 List of tectonic plates reverted edits by 110.138.89.70 - tectonic plates were not a thing in the time of Oronce Fine; the cited source reference is not about Oronce Fine Tag: Manual revert
25 April 2024
- 22:1122:11, 25 April 2024 diff hist +12 Petrified wood →See also: added "Amber" current
- 22:0922:09, 25 April 2024 diff hist +20 Fossil wood →See also: added "Jet (gemstone)" current
- 22:0722:07, 25 April 2024 diff hist +4 Jet (gemstone) →England: added wikilink for "fossilized wood"
- 21:5521:55, 25 April 2024 diff hist +13 Anthropocene Introduction - "coining the term anthropocene" - added date when Stoermer started using the term - "in the 1980s" because without it the sentence didn't make good sense - i.e. remove ambiguity about Stoermer's first use being after the mid-1970s
- 21:4321:43, 25 April 2024 diff hist −6 Anthropocene Introduction - GSSPs - changed "Anthropocene epoch" to "Anthropocene" because the GSSP would mark the lower boundary of the "Anthropocene Series" (i.e. the set of rocks not the epoch time interval)
- 17:0917:09, 25 April 2024 diff hist +14 Anthropocene Introduction - GSSPs - copyedits; clarified "boundary" to "lower boundary"
- 17:0617:06, 25 April 2024 diff hist +4 Anthropocene Introduction - changed "12" at start of a sentence to "Twelve"
- 17:0417:04, 25 April 2024 diff hist −3 Anthropocene Undid revision 1220698610 by 192.76.8.70 (talk) - "In March 5, 2024" - reverted specific date - "In March 5" is WP:RECENTISM and was also grammatically incorrect (and Wikipedia is not a newspaper) - It took 15 years to make the decision, the specific date is not significant; "In March 2024" is enough now. Nine months from now "In 2024" will be enough. Tag: Undo
- 15:0015:00, 25 April 2024 diff hist +4 Basalt →Vesta: added wikilink for "asteroid" current
- 14:5214:52, 25 April 2024 diff hist −135 Pumice raft →Notable examples: photo "Pumice raft.jpg" - caption text - changed to "Satellite image of a pumice raft near Vavaʻu, Tonga, in August 2006" current
24 April 2024
- 22:2022:20, 24 April 2024 diff hist −41 Earth →Surface: land cover - attempted to simplify/clarify complex sentence structure - removed seemingly unnecessary "citation needed" tag that was placed next to two existing source reference citations
- 21:2721:27, 24 April 2024 diff hist +23 Quartz →Occurrence: largest single quartz crystal- MOS:UNITS states that for scientific articles, primary unit should be SI unit; also cited source states the weight is probably an underestimate, so added "over"
- 20:3520:35, 24 April 2024 diff hist +27 Hydrothermal vent →Physical properties: "terrestrial" - added "clarification needed" tag
- 20:3120:31, 24 April 2024 diff hist +199 Geology of the Canary Islands →External links: added "MAGNA 50k (2nd series) – Geological map of Spain" current
- 20:1520:15, 24 April 2024 diff hist +15 Geology of Germany →German Alps: photo "Röthenbach Flysch.JPG" - caption text - added "steeply-tilted" current
- 20:1120:11, 24 April 2024 diff hist +16 Geology of Germany →Mesozoic platform: gaize - note - added wikilinks for "Cenomanian", "Turonian", "Baltic States", "claystone"
- 20:0320:03, 24 April 2024 diff hist +105 Precambrian →Precambrian supercontinents: maps of Precambrian continents - added "citation needed" tags
- 15:3015:30, 24 April 2024 diff hist +1 Geology of San Marino corrected spelling error - changed "Olistrosome" to "Olistostrome" current
- 15:0815:08, 24 April 2024 diff hist +35 Precambrian →Subdivisions: Proterozoic - "it was a synonym for "Precambrian" and hence included everything prior to the Cambrian boundary" - added "citation needed" tag
- 15:0315:03, 24 April 2024 diff hist 0 Precambrian →Precambrian supercontinents: Rodinia - changed "embodied most or all of Earth's continents" to "included most or all of Earth's continents"
- 14:5914:59, 24 April 2024 diff hist −2 Impact crater Introduction - changed "astronomical object" to "astronomical body"
- 14:3714:37, 24 April 2024 diff hist +10 Maar →Distribution: "Meteor Crater" - changed "rather a crater than meteoric origin" to "but it is now known to be an impact crater"
19 April 2024
- 21:2221:22, 19 April 2024 diff hist −9 Volcanism →Eruptions: photo "Kilauea Fissure 8 cone erupting on 6-28-2018.jpg" - caption text - changed "liquid material (lava) simply seeps from the vent" to "liquid material (lava) flows from a vent"
- 21:1121:11, 19 April 2024 diff hist −4 Volcanism →Phreatic eruption: removed duplicate wikilink for "phreatic eruption"
- 21:0621:06, 19 April 2024 diff hist +1 Volcanism →Eruptions: moved first paragraph - it is about generalities of eruptions not the cause of their explosiveness
- 20:5220:52, 19 April 2024 diff hist +604 Volcanism →Pyroclastic flows: added "Pyroclastic flows are a common feature at explosive volcanoes on Earth."; added "Pyroclastic flows have been found on Venus, for example at the Dione Regio volcanoes." with source reference "Campbell_et_al_2017" (edited with ProveIt)
- 19:2119:21, 19 April 2024 diff hist +30 Volcanism →Lava types: "texture" - clarified as "solidified surface texture"
- 19:0519:05, 19 April 2024 diff hist −2 Anthropocene →Anthropocene Working Group: "would have been named Crawfordian" - this is not an accurate past-tensing of what the cited source states ("may well be called the Crawfordian") - changed to "may have been named Crawfordian"
- 18:5018:50, 19 April 2024 diff hist −32 Banded iron formation Undid revision 1219769480 by J 1982 (talk) - removed wikilinks for well-known countries - see MOS:OVERLINK current Tag: Undo
- 17:0117:01, 19 April 2024 diff hist −10 Volcanism Introduction - changed "an internal heat source inside the body" to "a heat source inside the body" - was unnecessary duplication - a heat source inside the body will obviously be internal
- 16:5616:56, 19 April 2024 diff hist +67 Volcanism →Pyroclastic flows: changed "When a colloid of volcanic gas and magma falls back to the ground" - magma does not fall back to the ground, falling back implies it is already above ground therefore the correct term would be lava not magma, but magma could still work if "falling back down" is removed - changed wording to avoid this contradiction; added details of eruption column collapse or failure
- 15:2515:25, 19 April 2024 diff hist −12 Stratovolcano Introduction - reverted "many sedimentary layers (strata)" to "many layers (strata)" - strata are layers of (any) rock, not all strata are sedimentary (rock); lava flows are not usually regarded as sedimentary rocks; lava can form (non-sedimentary) strata Tag: Manual revert
- 15:1315:13, 19 April 2024 diff hist −6 Lava dome Introduction - changed "are lava-dome forming" to "form lava domes" current
18 April 2024
- 17:4717:47, 18 April 2024 diff hist −4 Talk:Volcanism article class - changed from "Start" to "C"
- 17:2317:23, 18 April 2024 diff hist 0 User:GeoWriter User boxes - editor "ranking" - updated from 4609 to 4581 (as of 17 April 2024)
- 17:1717:17, 18 April 2024 diff hist 0 User:GeoWriter User boxes - updated "Wikipedia edit count" - set to "over 25,800" (reached on 17 April 2024
- 16:0316:03, 18 April 2024 diff hist +173 Geology of Germany →External links: added "Nationaler Geotop – List of the most notable geological localities in Germany
17 April 2024
- 22:4422:44, 17 April 2024 diff hist −11 Ring of Fire Introduction - stratovolcanoes - changed "which are formed by" to "formed by" and removed a comma current
- 22:3322:33, 17 April 2024 diff hist 0 Ring of Fire Introduction - swapped order of two sentences
- 22:2522:25, 17 April 2024 diff hist +9 Ring of Fire →Soil: changed "created by" to "they have formed by"
- 22:1822:18, 17 April 2024 diff hist +16 Ring of Fire →Earthquakes: added wikilink for "modern seismological measuring equipment" piped to "Seismometer"
- 22:0922:09, 17 April 2024 diff hist +23 Volcanism →See also: added "Geology of Ceres"
- 22:0322:03, 17 April 2024 diff hist −17 Seafloor spreading →Cooling mantle model: removed "we can find that" - see MOS:PRONOUNS current
- 21:5821:58, 17 April 2024 diff hist −2 Seafloor spreading →Cooling mantle model: changed "we have" to "gives" - see MOS:PRONOUNS
- 21:5721:57, 17 April 2024 diff hist −8 Seafloor spreading Introduction - wikilink for "volcanic activity" - removed pipe to "Volcano"
- 21:3921:39, 17 April 2024 diff hist +33 Lava →See also: added "Lava planet"
- 21:3721:37, 17 April 2024 diff hist +36 Volcanism →See also: added "Lava planet" and "Magma ocean"
- 21:3421:34, 17 April 2024 diff hist +14 Volcanism →See also: added "4 Vesta"
- 21:3021:30, 17 April 2024 diff hist +23 Volcanism →See also: added "Geology of Pluto"
- 21:2721:27, 17 April 2024 diff hist +25 Volcanism →See also: added "Geology of Mercury"
- 21:2321:23, 17 April 2024 diff hist +4 Volcanism →Pyroclastic flows: added wikilink for "volcanic gas"
- 21:2121:21, 17 April 2024 diff hist +41 Volcanism →See also: added "Mantle plume" and "Plate tectonics"
- 21:1821:18, 17 April 2024 diff hist +36 Volcanism →See also: added "Extraterrestrial liquid water"
- 21:1321:13, 17 April 2024 diff hist +25 Volcanism →Formation of cryomagma reservoirs: added wikilink for "model" piped to "Scientific modelling"
- 21:0321:03, 17 April 2024 diff hist −13 Volcanism →Heat source: wikilink for "planetesimals" - removed unnecessary pipe
- 21:0221:02, 17 April 2024 diff hist −4 Volcanism →Heat source: removed wikilink for "Earth"
- 20:5920:59, 17 April 2024 diff hist +33 Volcanism →Heat source: added wikilink for "Earth's total heat" piped to "Earth's internal heat budget"
- 20:5320:53, 17 April 2024 diff hist −19 Volcanism →Heat source: changed "During the early phase of a planet's formation" to "During a planet's formation"
- 20:2620:26, 17 April 2024 diff hist +39 Volcanology →Forecasting: added "Main article: Prediction of volcanic activity"
- 20:2320:23, 17 April 2024 diff hist +4 Volcanism →Volcanic ash formation: added wikilink for "volcanic bombs"
- 20:2020:20, 17 April 2024 diff hist +19 Volcanism →Dikes: added wikilink for "dike"
- 20:1520:15, 17 April 2024 diff hist +4 Volcanism →Cause of volcanism: added wikilink for "viscosity"
- 20:1320:13, 17 April 2024 diff hist +21 Volcanism →Cause of volcanism: added wikilink for "mantle"
- 20:0720:07, 17 April 2024 diff hist −2 Volcanism Short description - changed "astronomical object" to "astronomical body"
- 20:0320:03, 17 April 2024 diff hist −142 Volcanism →Further reading: "Volcanism in the Solar System" - removed because already used as a source reference citation in this Wikipedia article's main text - see WP:ELRC
- 19:0119:01, 17 April 2024 diff hist +2 Continent →Supercontinents: map image "Pangaea 200Ma.jpg" - size parameter - changed "320 x 320px" to "upright=1.45" - see WP:IMAGESIZE; caption text - removed a full stop - see MOS:CAPFRAG
- 16:5916:59, 17 April 2024 diff hist +4 Volcanism →Heat source: added wikilink for "silicate"
- 16:2716:27, 17 April 2024 diff hist +48 Volcanism →Cause of explosive activity: added sub-section heading "Exsolution of volatiles" and changed sub-section hierarchy
- 16:1916:19, 17 April 2024 diff hist −21 Volcanism →Gentle and explosive eruptions: shortened section heading to "Eruptions"
- 16:1016:10, 17 April 2024 diff hist +21 Volcanism →Heat source: added wikilink for "planet's formation"
- 16:0416:04, 17 April 2024 diff hist +9 Volcanism →Heat source: impacts by planetesimals - changed "During the formative days of a planet" to "During the early phase of a planet's formation"
- 15:5515:55, 17 April 2024 diff hist +4 Volcanism →Lava types: "" - emphasise by changing to italic font
- 15:5015:50, 17 April 2024 diff hist −280 Volcanism merged text about phreatic and phreatomagmatic eruptions and removed a duplicated paragraph
- 15:3715:37, 17 April 2024 diff hist +5 Volcanism →Mud volcanoes: added wikilink for "mud volcano"
- 15:3515:35, 17 April 2024 diff hist +44 Volcanism Introduction - source reference ":0" - reformatted author names
- 15:1915:19, 17 April 2024 diff hist +50 Volcanism →Decompression melting: source reference "Earle" - reformatted and added details
- 15:1015:10, 17 April 2024 diff hist +21 Volcanism →Decompression melting: changed "This happens" to "Decompression melting happens" with wikilink for "Decompression melting"
- 15:0715:07, 17 April 2024 diff hist +348 Volcanism →Flux melting: changed "like water" to "for example water or carbon dioxide" with source reference for carbon dioxide (edited with ProveIt)
- 14:4314:43, 17 April 2024 diff hist +12 Volcanism →Flux melting: changed "This occurs" to "Flux melting occurs" with wikilink for "Flux melting"
- 14:3814:38, 17 April 2024 diff hist +115 Earth's magnetic field Introduction - image "Geodynamo Between Reversals.gif" - caption text - restored some deleted text
- 12:4712:47, 17 April 2024 diff hist +12 Volcanism →Pyroclastic flows: changed "These can often climb ..." to "Pyroclastic flows can often climb ..."
- 12:4212:42, 17 April 2024 diff hist +4 Volcanism →Pyroclastic flows: added wikilink for "pyroclastic flow"
- 12:4012:40, 17 April 2024 diff hist −1 Volcanism →Pyroclastic flows: changed "magma" to "lava" as this is an "above surface" scenario after eruption
- 12:3312:33, 17 April 2024 diff hist +979 Wikipedia:Peer review/Geologic time scale/archive2 my comments 1
- 11:5011:50, 17 April 2024 diff hist −160 Talk:Submarine volcano Undid revision 1219366715 by 41.122.131.198 (talk) - removed meaningless comment current Tag: Undo
16 April 2024
- 22:1422:14, 16 April 2024 diff hist +44 Volyn biota created "See also" section and added annotated link for "Calymmian" current
- 22:1022:10, 16 April 2024 diff hist +29 Volyn biota added category "Mesoproterozoic"
- 22:0322:03, 16 April 2024 diff hist −139 Telychian Infobox - lower boundary GSSP - source reference - reformatted; added journal name; changed date; changed URL to publisher's webpage; removed access date current
- 21:4521:45, 16 April 2024 diff hist +244 Telychian Infobox - upper boundary GSSP - source reference citation "silurianState" - added missing details (copied from Wikipedia's Sheinwoodian article
14 April 2024
- 21:2621:26, 14 April 2024 diff hist −10 Volcanism →Cryovolcanic melt ascent: changed "Note that not all these mechanisms" to "Not all of these mechanisms" - see MOS:NOTETHAT
- 21:2121:21, 14 April 2024 diff hist 0 Volcanism Introduction - source reference for Melosh's book - corrected the title of the book chapter - it is "Volcanism" not "Volcanoes"
- 21:0721:07, 14 April 2024 diff hist −1 Paleoproterozoic →Atmosphere: changed "The Earth's atmosphere were ..." to "The eartg current
- 17:5317:53, 14 April 2024 diff hist 0 Volcanism →Lava types: changed from "magma erupts to a planet’s surface" to "magma erupts onto a planet's surface"
- 17:4817:48, 14 April 2024 diff hist −31 Volcanism →Lava types: merged into a single paragraph - the A’a section was not only about a’a anyway; changed from "divided into different types" to "divided into four types"
- 17:3717:37, 14 April 2024 diff hist −11 Volcanism →Pahoehoe lava: "billows and swales" (copy/pasted from Melosh's description) - changed to "mounds, hollows"
- 17:0917:09, 14 April 2024 diff hist +173 Volcanism →External links: "Glossary of Volcanic Terms" - dead link - added archive details
- 17:0017:00, 14 April 2024 diff hist −126 Volcanism →Further reading: removed "Cryovolcanism" at ntrs.nasa.gov (Fagent et al (2021)) - already linked in main text of this Wikipedia article - see WP:ELRC
- 16:5316:53, 14 April 2024 diff hist −59 Volcanism →Further reading: removed "Melosh" link - problematic copyright status - see Talk:Volcanism for details (e.g. WP:COPYVIOEL and WP:COPYLINK
- 16:4916:49, 14 April 2024 diff hist −98 Volcanism →External links: removed Markewicz's lecture - aready used as a source reference citation in this Wikipedia article's main text - see WP:ELRC
- 16:3716:37, 14 April 2024 diff hist +50 Volcanism Introduction - first paragraph - source reference citation "universemagazine.com" - added work "Universe Space Tech"
- 16:2116:21, 14 April 2024 diff hist +249 Volcanism →Heat source: source reference citation "solar-system-school" - added details
- 16:0516:05, 14 April 2024 diff hist +289 Volcanism →Pillow lava: source reference Singer et al. (2022) - formatted authors and displayed list of 25 authors as "Singer, Kelsi N.; et al."
- 15:3715:37, 14 April 2024 diff hist +1 Volcanism →Pillow lava: added a blank space after a source reference citation
- 15:3515:35, 14 April 2024 diff hist +14 Volcanism →Lava types: added "Main article: Lava" template
- 15:3315:33, 14 April 2024 diff hist −40 Volcanism →Standpipe model: swapped order of some sentences ; changed "volcanoes nearby each other" to "volcanoes near each other"
- 15:1515:15, 14 April 2024 diff hist −168 Volcanism removed multiple definitions of source reference citation ":2" - there should a single occurrence with the details then the "/" repeat wikitext format should be used for the other occurrences
- 15:0715:07, 14 April 2024 diff hist +159 Volcanism changed source reference ":2" details from "cite web" of a pdf file with problematic copyright status to "cite book" with full publication details (book title, author, publisher, date, doi) and also include a web link url for Google Books where the book's publisher allows the public read some of the book's content - see Talk:Volcanism for details of problematic copyright status of university's copy of pdf file
- 14:5314:53, 14 April 2024 diff hist +10 Volcanism Introduction - changed "the presence of an internal heat source in the body. Inside the body, heat partially melts solid material" to "the presence of a natural heat source inside the body. This internal heat partially melts solid material in the body"
- 14:4614:46, 14 April 2024 diff hist 0 Volcanism Introduction - changed "solid surface astronomical body" to "solid-surface astronomical body"
- 14:4414:44, 14 April 2024 diff hist −22 Volcanism Introduction - shorten "(any natural objects found in space like planets, comets and asteroids)" to "for example planets, moons, asteroids and comets" (any natural objects found in space - seems unnecessarily ambiguous - how about e,g, plants, insects and bacteria on the space station?)
- 14:3014:30, 14 April 2024 diff hist −1 Volcanism removed a blank line at top of wikitext
12 April 2024
- 15:1715:17, 12 April 2024 diff hist +67 Quartz →Related silica minerals: Silica P-T diagram - caption text - added source reference citation (obtained from the image's Wikimedia Commons description page)
- 15:1115:11, 12 April 2024 diff hist −1 Quartz →Occurrence: removed spurious ]
- 15:1015:10, 12 April 2024 diff hist +116 Quartz →Related silica minerals: silica P-T diagram - moved from left to right; added caption text "Pressure-temperature diagram showing the stability ranges for the two forms of quartz and some other forms of silica"
- 15:0215:02, 12 April 2024 diff hist −95 Quartz →Occurrence: changed photo from Seychelles granite to North Carolina sandstone - better aspect ratio
- 14:4814:48, 12 April 2024 diff hist +1 Alpine Fault →History of research: wall - changed "to see if it moves" to "to find if it moves"
- 14:4614:46, 12 April 2024 diff hist +5 Alpine Fault →History of research: changed from "a 25-metre concrete wall concrete wall" to "a 25-metre-long concrete wall concrete wall"