Template:Did you know nominations/Los Frailes ignimbrite plateau


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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 07:24, 10 February 2018 (UTC)

Los Frailes ignimbrite plateau

 * ... that the Los Frailes ignimbrite plateau has a volume of about 2,000 cubic kilometres and volcanism may have continued into the Holocene? Despite its prominance, large volume (2000 km3) and the mineralization in its satellite units,,Since its lavas poured out over moraines of the last glaciationwhich occurred at some 11,000 years ago,its inferred ageis Holocene.
 * Reviewed: Stuart Mustow

Created by Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk). Self-nominated at 16:17, 28 January 2018 (UTC).


 * Reviewing. -- Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 23:33, 28 January 2018 (UTC)


 * Yes, the Holocene bit is in the full text.
 * 2000 km3 is a fairly sizable volume for an ignimbrite province. Now a lot depends on whether you treat Los Frailes as a single volcanic unit or as a volcanic complex (slightly less impressive in that case since e.g Altiplano-Puna volcanic complex is about ten times larger). Also, most such volcanic systems don't have eruptions in the Holocene - Yellowstone has had only steam explosions and the Altiplano-Puna volcanic complex only geothermal fields like El Tatio and ground deformation like Uturuncu.
 * What is ppl?
 * Disambiguations repaired. I notice that none of our articles on Condor Nasa and Villacollo appear to correspond to the ones mentioned in the text.
 * Reworded thicknesses.
 * Added the "registration required" flags. I note that I access these sources via a institutional access, so I am not 100% certain whether some of these require a subscription rather than mere registration.
 * Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 10:11, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the fixes and prompt reply. And sorry I used the lazy "ppl" abbreviation for "people".
 * Your explanation of the significance of the size and the holocene era is v. helpful to a non-geologist like me. Just a suggestion, not a DYK criteria issue: would it be possible to put some of that sort of info in the article, to help our non-specialist readers understand the significance?
 * Anyway, all issues resolved. -- Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 14:23, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Your explanation of the significance of the size and the holocene era is v. helpful to a non-geologist like me. Just a suggestion, not a DYK criteria issue: would it be possible to put some of that sort of info in the article, to help our non-specialist readers understand the significance?
 * Anyway, all issues resolved. -- Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 14:23, 29 January 2018 (UTC)


 * Symbol voting keep.svg AGF on paywalled source> All other issues resolved, so good to go. -- Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 14:26, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Added a statement on the size, nothing on Nuevo Mundo as that volcano has very little written about. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 14:45, 29 January 2018 (UTC)