Talk:Serpentine soil

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Asbestos
Should someone speak of the relationship between serpentine and asbestos —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.19.235.227 (talk) 01:34, 7 November 2009 (UTC)

Don't know, is there one?Apothecia (talk) 03:12, 1 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Yes: Chrysotile asbestos is a serpentine mineral (see the first three paragraphs of Serpentine group), and I believe it's found in many ultramafic deposits. Wildbirdz (talk) 22:34, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

Merge serp. barrens into
Going to merge serpentine barrens into this page, so here is the notice: merge content from Serpentine barrens

Apothecia (talk) 03:12, 1 January 2010 (UTC)

US bias
This article is entirely US-based. There are serpentine rocks in other parts of the world, eg Lizard Peninsula, UK. see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geology_of_Lizard —Preceding unsigned comment added by BioImages2000 (talk • contribs) 09:01, 13 October 2010 (UTC)

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can someone add at the begining a simple definition, i still dont understand what is a serpentine soil or why it is special —Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.172.61.32 (talk) 18:45, 31 December 2010 (UTC)

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Route to C-Class
This article has a lot of good information, and there are plenty of sources on this topic. It is well-studied enough to have a good article. What it needs most is to be cleaned up and reorganized--if we can do that, we can get it to C-class without a hitch.

I have started this process, working from the top down, and I have identified some specific issues:

1. The references list needs to be properly organized

2. We need images of the actual soil, preferably a soil profile. The current image is more ecological in nature.

3. There are many places where information is duplicated or segmented awkwardly into different headings. Some of this should be reorganized.

4. There are stub headings which have very little information, but which would be better to flesh out than to delete.

5. As others have noted, this article is highly US-centric and other areas should be better represented. The Lizard, for example, should be represented much better as it is the namesake of Lizardite. I will be cross-linking this specific example but there are other examples of outcrops.

6. The botany section is quite extensive, which is good, but it outweighs some other aspects of the topic. Let's bring the rest of the content up to this size rather than decreasing the content here.

Here are some sources to use: [1 ], [2 ], [3 ], [4 ]. In general, there should be some really good sources from universities in the California area. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Prometheus720 (talk • contribs) 22:03, 9 April 2019 (UTC)