Talk:Rock cycle
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[edit] No discussion
A collaboration with no discussion?
How detailed should this be? The rock cycle is usually introduced in elementary science, but the details of, for instance the Wilson cycle (see ext. links), could be developed into a lengthy article. Vsmith 03:00, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
- Make this as detailed as it needs to be inorder for the article to be FA calibar.--ZeWrestler Talk 03:41, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Here's your discussion
I think we should include something about plate tectonics in the article. But i'm not sure what. Any suggestions?--ZeWrestler Talk 03:41, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
I've been trying to work out how to incorporate more detial on that info into the artilce, along with infomation on the hydrological cycle since water is neseccary for weathering- but haven't come up with anything yet. But obviously they need to be talked about since they drive the cycle. Mabye the actual cycle could be described in a section called Forces driving the rock cycle, or more simply the rock cycle. I've also been searching for information on who came up with the concept, but no luck there so far either.--nixie 23:08, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
- I like your idea with forces driving the rock cycle. i went ahead and created the section headers. If i didn't have to work on my statement of purpose for the Grad school, i'd go find my geology text book from class last semester and use some info from that. --ZeWrestler Talk 02:07, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
- On another note, It'd be neat if someone colored that B&W figure, its kinda dull as is.--nixie 23:09, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
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- Color would be nice - that's why I grabbed that nice colorful image I thought was a NASA product - oh well :-). I've added an historical sketch and am thinking about those two blank sections, added a couple more ext. links as future feedstock (and to bookmark 'em). Vsmith 04:51, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
- I went to the wiki-illustrations project and asked Mark Dingemanse to make us a color diagram for the rock cycle. Now for the 2 blank sections, how should we start these? --ZeWrestler Talk 16:01, 2 August 2005 (UTC)
I think we should also discuss the Wilson cycle and the Tectonic Rock Cycle in this article, they're not very difficult concepts, and would be harder to understand outside the context of this article. It might be clear to explain the role of plate tectonics in the rock cycle in the context of the Wilson cycle.--nixie 05:05, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
- On a realted note Wilson Cycle currently redirects to Supercontinent Cycle--nixie 05:07, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
I've put my thoughts into a preliminary version of the plate tectonics section, saved as work in progress at User:Vsmith/experimental/rock cycle. Right now it's just as it flowed off the top of my head, will be modifying & cleaning it over the next couple days - take a look and let me know what you think here. Right now it is late and I'm tired, Good night. Vsmith 04:42, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Water cycle
I've tried to start writing this section a few times, I think it might be better if the section was called weathering- or something like that. Then the section could describe water, gravity, and so on. --nixie 05:00, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Rock Cycle
Magma,Crystalization,Eruption,Igneous,Sedimentary,Metamorphic, Start Over! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.164.218.44 (talk) 01:10, 6 March 2007 (UTC).
