Talk:Partial melting

Anatexis
Whats the difference between Partial melting and Anatexis? It seams to me, that these articles should be merged.--Kyng (talk) 12:23, 20 March 2009 (UTC)


 * It's hard to argue against that, with both articles having such little content. However, as I understand it, anatexis is the end point of prograde metamorphism within the crust, with partial melting taking place, giving rise to some granites. Partial melting on the other hand, also takes place at mid-ocean ridges and beneath subduction zones in the asthenosphere, giving rise to andesitic melts, and, with differentation, other types of granites. If you're going to merge them for now (which I think is fine), then 'Partial melting' needs to be the title. Mikenorton (talk) 18:20, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: ERTH 4303 Resources of the Earth
— Assignment last updated by ChloejWard (talk) 03:39, 15 April 2023 (UTC)

Improving the "Partial Melting" article - Final report
During the last few months I chose this article to improve as part of a 4th year undergraduate course at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. Overall, the previous version of the article had a lead section that was not well connected to the rest of the text. Furthermore, the descriptions of the processes that lead to partial melting of the mantle and generation of the magma were not good summaries in plain language, containing a lot of jargon and overly detailed explanations. The article also did not contain much information on the significance of partial melting or linked the parameters that cause it (pressure, temperature, volatiles, composition of rock) to the tectonic settings present on the Earth. Sources were also not abundant and did not contain important reviews on the topic.

The way I found to improve the article was changing its structure and adding more information from a variety of sources. The lead section would now contain a brief introduction on the topic and a summary of the following subsections: the parameters that govern partial melting, which mechanisms exist on the Earth's lithosphere to generate magma from the mantle and what is the significance of this process to crustal evolution and mineral deposit formation.

With the help of Nabil Shawwa and of peer reviews by Jackaloping, Connorhs25 and Naeim9146 we managed to build an article that is more in line with Wikipedia's goals. Here we tried to strike a balance between detailed and up-to-date content, diversity of sources and use of plain and neutral language. As a result the article is currently based on twenty sources, while the previous version contained only two. Links were added to redirect interested readers to other pages and to better integrate the article into the Wikipedia environment.

Of course this does not mean that this is a final version of the article. Different views would be important to continue the discussion of improving the text and making it more robust and accessible to Wikipedia's broad audience. Furthermore, as someone who does not have English as a first language, the text could benefit from revisions by native speakers. Yaatch (talk) 13:44, 14 April 2023 (UTC)