Talk:Geology of the Massif Central

Requested move 11 June 2018

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The result of the move request was: moved as requested per the discussion below. Dekimasu よ! 20:40, 18 June 2018 (UTC)

Massif Central (geology) → Geology of the Massif Central – This isn't a disambiguation from the article Massif Central, rather a subtopic of it, so it should be named in a more natural way as "Geology of the Massif Central". 81.129.155.96 (talk) 21:14, 11 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Support on the logic. Massif Central geology might also work (more WP:CONCISE, but might not be as WP:PRECISE). Both should exist, one as a redirect.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  17:32, 12 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Support rename to "Geology of the Massif Central" GeoWriter (talk) 18:10, 12 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Support either "Geology of the Massif Central" or "Massif Central geology", per nom and User:SMcCandlish. Paintspot Infez (talk) 19:50, 12 June 2018 (UTC)


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Unclear lead wording
"The Massif Central forms together with the Armorican Massif (Brittany and Normandy) one of the two large basement massifs in France." This seems on careful syntactic analysis to imply that there are two large basement massifs in France; and that one of them (not named here) is actually composed of the Massif Central and Armorican Massif, which are really misnomers, being parts of a single massif; and that the other large basement massif in France is also not named here. I have a suspicion that was is really meant is something like "The Massif Central is one of the two large basement massifs in France, the other being the Armorican Massif."

Furthermore, this use of "basement" needs explanation (at least via a link to something). The word means "underground room in a building" to 99.999999% of our readers, who are not magically going to figure out what it means in a geological sense on their own. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  23:01, 12 June 2018 (UTC)


 * Thanks for finding and raising this. Although the rocks of the two regions are two parts of the Hercynian orogenic belt and therefore possibly joined at great depth, the massifs are two separate surface landforms and therefore the massifs are usually treated by geologists and geographers as two separate entities, so your suspicion is in line with the geological consenus. I have changed the text in the article. I've also added a wiki link for geological basement. GeoWriter (talk) 19:48, 13 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Looks good!  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  03:49, 14 June 2018 (UTC)

Technical level
I came to this page as a natural scientist but non-geologist hoping to learn more about the geologic history of the Massif Central. I find it almost incomprehensible. I understand that it may be intended for use by professional geologists and if so I wonder whether an alternative and simpler plain language version might also be written? 2A01:CB1D:8901:3100:C461:626C:9B72:CF1 (talk) 20:29, 18 February 2023 (UTC)