User talk:Mikenorton

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Welcome!

Hello, Mikenorton, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome!  Wow youve been doing all that editing in an important area and no one has said g'day (saw your work on Perth basin) anyway looks like youre doing well! SatuSuro 10:44, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Anytime

Dont let me even say what some parts of this place are like - its good to see some good hard rock stuff (scuse the attempt at pun). I used to work (for a short time) at Mt Lyell in Tasmania and used to think - if these guys (the geols I was assistant to) only spent about three or four years at uni - I could do that too! Funny, I somehow got distracted on the way and got very intrigued by Mount Merapi, Krakatoa and Tambora in Indonesia - and distracted again ended up doing work on a Royal graveyard in Java Indonesia! Anyways - the rock issue for me in the near future (seeing that I keep referring to it but not writing it up) is Mount Read Volcanics - west coast tas - enough said, trust you enjoy your time doing wiki things! SatuSuro 23:14, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Shear Sense

Hi Mikenorton, my structural Geology Professor gave me the order, to get into the structural geology stuff inside of wikipedia, wright some articles and of course try to improve some articles.

I've heard several lectures and took place in some workshops and fieldtrips, but I'm still a studend :-)! So please forgive my overhasty correction of your description.

I had a talk with another structural geology professor about that picture. He was sure, that the vein was precipitated pretectonic. The competence contrast led to the asymetric boudinage. It looks like a shearband boudin (from passchier&trouw:microtectonics) showing a strain fringe (dissolution-precipitation).

I would like to stay in contact.

In this special case and other cases we have a really good image archive of structural features, which would really improve the articles. I will upload few on my own webspace and send you the links! EndoMax 09:13, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

Our archive also provides a huge number of interpreted thin-section fotographs! EndoMax 09:36, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Oil shale

Hi Mikenorton. You are listed as a participant in WikiProject Geology. Maybe you to please consider helping to improve the oil shale article. This article has developed quite well, but some more expert assistance is needed. Thank you in advance. Beagel 17:25, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wackestone

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[edit] State geological article requests

Hi. I honestly expected wikipedia to have full detailed articles on Geology by state e.g Geology of California or Geology of Utah. I'm not even from the States but I had fully expected a detailed article on each state. Some of the American geological articles are very poor or non existent see Basic geologic features of each state. PLease could your project aim to start these articles and develop them. All the best and thanks ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ "Talk"? 13:06, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

I understand that people think in terms of states, but I prefer to have articles by geologic feature, so that their would be one article on the Rocky Mountains, and not seven, e.g. Rocky Mts in Wyoming etc, one article on Basin and Range Province and not four or five. This is also true in the eastern U.S. where state boundaries are often slightly more related to topography, but still usually unrelated to the geology. I would expect a state geographical section, or article, to refer to the appropriate geological features which would then have there own articles. --Bejnar 15:47, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cooperation on microscope pictures

Just writte here if you need any other pictures, just say me. More is there --Chmee2 (talk) 20:38, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Subduction graphic

Graphic looks excellent ClimberDave (talk) 21:59, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Image copyright problem with Image:Honister green slate1.gif

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[edit] Hemispherical projection

Hi, Mike. You and I briefly discussed collaborating on a new article on the equal-area hemispherical projection. I have started a draft at User:Joshuardavis/Hemispherical projection. If you are still interested, feel free to edit that article where it is. (Or we can move it to neutral territory, if you prefer.) Some points:

  • I'm not sure what the title should be. I chose this one, so that we could treat equal-angle and equal-area together. I would have stereonet, Schmidt net, etc. all redirect to this article. I suspect that Wulff net should be merged into this article, but let's not jump the gun --- maybe we will end up with enough material for multiple articles?
  • On the other hand, should this article be merged into Pole figure? I don't know the terminology exactly; does "pole figure" refer only to equal-angle projection?
  • I intend to make graphics for Wulff and Schmidt nets, put them in, and discuss how to use them. More graphics are needed throughout.
  • The applications section is barely-existent, as you'll see. I was hoping you'd have a lot to say here. Some of the material could be taken from Stereographic projection.

Please let me know what you think, here if you like. Joshua R. Davis (talk) 18:00, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

Well Joshua, I'm glad you're doing the maths. It's not entirely beyond me, but it would take a long time to get my head around it. The draft looks like an excellent first go at it. I'll try to find some time to add to it over the next week. A gentle reminder here would not be amiss if nothing turns up from me by next Thursday. Mikenorton 23:02, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

Hi, again, Mike. Yesterday I discovered the common name for the equal-area hemispherical projection: Lambert azimuthal equal-area projection. My new plan is to treat the equal-area/Schmidt stuff there (I've already expanded it a lot) and the equal-angle/Wulff stuff in Stereographic projection. Then there is no need for any new article. (I also think Wulff net and maybe Pole figure can be absorbed into Stereographic projection.) Your help is still appreciated. Joshua R. Davis (talk) 16:16, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Blake Basin

Thought I'd drop you a note after reverting your edit to Oceanic trench. I'm not quite sure how to classify Blake Basin. It probably represents remnant topography from the break-up of Pangaea during the Jurassic. I've not been able to find much on the underlying geology that can provide a useable source to help expand the article. It should probably be classified along with rift/break-up related bathymmetric features such as the Faeroe-Shetland Trough and Rockall Trough. The Blake Ridge is probably underlain by thinned continental crust similar to the Faeroe Ridge and Rockall Plateau. I'm not going to add anything at the moment as it would be mainly OR, but I will keep on looking. Mikenorton (talk) 15:41, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Blake Basin

Thought I'd drop you a note after reverting your edit to Oceanic trench. I'm not quite sure how to classify Blake Basin. It probably represents remnant topography from the break-up of Pangaea during the Jurassic. I've not been able to find much on the underlying geology that can provide a useable source to help expand the article. It should probably be classified along with rift/break-up related bathymmetric features such as the Faeroe-Shetland Trough and Rockall Trough. The Blake Ridge is probably underlain by thinned continental crust similar to the Faeroe Ridge and Rockall Plateau. I'm not going to add anything at the moment as it would be mainly OR, but I will keep on looking. Mikenorton (talk) 15:41, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for getting back to me. WikiP would appreciate your help, I am sure. Sincerely, GeorgeLouis (talk) 17:43, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Monocline

Hey you wrote something on my talk page, and I was trying to put some info down for monoclines but I couldn't figure it out. Can you help me out? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Monocline310 (talk • contribs) 21:42, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] nice article

I'm glad you got that page up and running. It all looks good, but some of the formations are a little unclear, even with the diagrams...also I don't know how to put pictures up with copyrights and all, but you should look at the waterpocket fold in Utah or you can also look at almost any part of Arizona on google earth and see them streaking across the state! [[[User:Monocline310|Monocline310]] (talk) 05:08, 22 March 2008 (UTC)]

[edit] Geology of the British Isles

Hi Mike, I see you moved my footnote comments about 'bedrock' and 'superficial' into the main body of the article. I originally added it in this form as a half-baked dither about removing this digression altogether. The article is about the geology of the British Isles, not about the terminology of (unnamed) BGS maps of the same. It is not really clear to me why there is a section headed 'Seismographical Results' with subsections 'Bedrock' and 'Deposits by glaciers'. Only the first sentence of the first paragraph here is really anything to do with seismographic results, and of course the superficial geology includes a great deal of material other than that deposited by glaciers: river gravels, 'alluvium', dunes, loess, head, peat etc. Even much 'glacial' material is of distinctly mixed fluvio/glacial origin. I feel this whole section of the article should really be rewritten. Pterre (talk) 23:06, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Hi Mike

Remember me Michel: Devon/Solund: University of Bergen

Contact me: jmichelsen@cox.net

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[edit] focal mechanism

I took a pass at it. The distinctions between moment tensors, moment, double couples, and beach balls are a bit hard to explain, and the fact that only P and not S wave mechanisms so far are discussed maybe should be corrected.John (talk) 03:53, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] lol

As I think my past record proves, I will be able to continue editing and vandalising for as long as I wish. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.45.80.45 (talk) 20:32, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Macocha

Hello. I can see that you are interested in geology, so I thought you might help me to find a better name for the article Macocha Gorge.

It is a geological feature in the Moravian Karst in the Czech Republic and its Czech name is Propast Macocha. The problem is that it is not a gorge, but I do not know, how to call it in English in a better way. It is a huge hole in the ground, which formed after a big underground cave collapsed.

Sometimes I also hear it is translated as "Macocha Abyss" into English, but I did not find any source, confirming that "abyss" is used for this sort of geological formation. Wikipedia knows just abyssal zone and abyssal plain, which are connected with sea bottom. My Czech-English dictionary suggests also the word "chasm", but when I tried to find it in Wikipedia, I was redirected to "rift", which is also something different.

Thank you. Jan.Kamenicek (talk) 12:28, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your answer. However, I think that sinkhole is not the correct term, because these are formed by water erosion. You wrote that the French term gouffre describes a thing formed when a roof of a cavern collapses, which is exactly what I need, but unfortunately it is not an English term. Meanwhile I found article Padirac Cave, where they call it "chasm". Is it possible to use it? If this is correct, it would mean that it is a nonsense to redirect chasm to the article rift, as it is done now. Jan.Kamenicek (talk) 10:19, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for clarification. I think you are right that the meaning of the term "sinkhole" is probably the nearest to the terms "propast" or "gouffre", although it is much more general (propast can be formed only when a roof of a cavern collapses). Therefore I will probably use the term in the article. I also tried Google, which unfortunately found just one example of collocation of this term with Macocha [1] and therefore I think it will be better to name the article "Macocha Abyss", which seems much more common in English [2], and to use the term sinkhole only in the definition.

If you think it is not a good solution, please let me know. Thank you for your help. Jan.Kamenicek (talk) 06:58, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Mesoplates

Mikenorton:

Thanks for your comments ([3]) on Mesoplates.

Feel free to edit for format and clarity. I'll attempt to answer any questions. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rexpilger (talk • contribs) 18:19, 6 June 2008 (UTC)