Talk:Fossil Creek

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Tufa or travertine
Would it be more correct to call the deposits tufa, or meteogene travertine? Based on the tufa and travertine pages, the material at Fossil Creek seems more likely to be tufa, because the water temperature is 72F. 159.87.11.241 (talk) 23:04, 21 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Maybe -- it's a warm, constant-temp source (at around 72F), cooling to ambient downstrean. However, a quick scan at Google Scholar turns up lots of recent papers like

etc. etc. -- and none for tufa. So we should go with the literature, I think. Best, Pete Tillman (talk) 00:06, 22 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Travertine geomorphology of Fossil Creek (1998)
 * Potential for travertine formation Fossil Creek, Arizona (2003)

Good article nomination
I am nominating this article for Good status on behalf of User:Finetooth, who did a fine expansion job. FT does not wish to guide the article through formal review processes. I had no part in conducting research for, or expanding, this article but I am happy to address concerns that may arise during the review process. Thanks. -- Another Believer ( Talk ) 19:23, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

First hydro-electric dam built in Az
It was suggested in the NAU documentary "A River Reborn" that the dam(s) was the first dam to be removed not only in Arizona but the whole southwest. Is this a significant enough fact (if indeed it is a fact) to be added into the removal section of this article? A for a cited source, I am sorry i can not find the movie on line. However this is the movie i am referencing - http://perceval.bio.nau.edu/MPCER_OLD/riverreborn/description.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.19.30.148 (talk) 06:17, 11 November 2014 (UTC)


 * This might be worth adding if more specific and supported by a reliable source. I've been poking around but have not found a reliable online source that says clearly that the dam was the first to be removed in Arizona or the Southwest. The sources I've found are either not necessarily reliable (dot.coms, advocacy groups, personal web sites) or hedge a bit in ways like the following from an issue (June 19, 2005) of the Arizona Republic: "It marks the first time in anyone's memory that an Arizona dam has been taken out of commission in the name of restoring a river." This implies that Arizona dams were removed for reasons other than restoring a river, and "anyone's memory" is nonspecific. The word "Southwest" is also ill-defined. You see the problem. Finetooth (talk) 02:46, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

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