User:Aagwebb

Hello Readers,

This wiki page serves as an introduction to me, and to Wikipedia endeavors I am involved in.

My name is Alex Webb, I am an Associate Professor of Earth Sciences (primary interests: field-based structural geology, tectonics, geo- and thermo-chronology) at the University of Hong Kong. .

During Fall Semesters, students in my Regional Geology class create Wikipedia pages on relevant topics of their choosing. I first practiced this approach at Louisiana State University, where it was introduced to me by members of LSU's Communication across the Curriculum program . All efforts in this arena have been ably assisted by wikipedia online ambassador Graeme Bartlett . As of late 2020, we have overseen student creation of 131 Wikipedia pages, all on geological subject matter.

Wikipedia Articles
This section provides a catalog of the Wikipedia articles that students have produced in prior classes. Many of these pages appeared in the "Did You Know" box of the Wikipedia main page shortly after being posted.

Fall Semester 2020: Regional Geology (HKU)
 * Earth system interactions across mountain belts
 * Fault zone hydrogeology
 * Geological structure measurement by LiDAR
 * Geology of Himachal Pradesh
 * Little Ice Age volcanism

Fall Semester 2019: Regional Geology (HKU)
 * Biogeography of paravian dinosaurs
 * Eastern Block of North China Craton
 * Heat-pipe tectonics
 * Junggar Basin
 * Microcracks in rock
 * Paleogeography of the India-Asia collision system
 * South China Craton
 * Subduction tectonics of the Philippines
 * Superior Craton
 * Western Block of North China Craton

Fall Semester 2018: Regional Geology (HKU)
 * Analogue modelling (geology)
 * Archean felsic volcanic rocks
 * Crustal evolution
 * Geology of Hong Kong
 * Hydrothermal mineral deposit
 * Northeast Syrtis
 * Optically stimulated luminescence thermochronometry
 * Regolith-hosted rare earth element deposits
 * Salt deformation
 * Tonalite-trondhjemite-granodiorite

Fall Semester 2017: Regional Geology (HKU)

Every single article created by the members of this class appeared in the "Did You Know" box of the Wikipedia main page, a testament to the diligent efforts and collaborative learning of this group of students.
 * Dinosaur tooth
 * Divergent double subduction
 * Eoarchean geology
 * Geology of Hainan Island
 * Geology of Myanmar
 * Geology of Sicily
 * Gravity of Mars
 * Hadean zircon
 * Lutetium%E2%80%93hafnium dating
 * North China Craton
 * Numerical modeling (geology)
 * Pressure-temperature-time path
 * Qinling orogenic belt
 * Remote sensing (geology)

Fall Semester 2016: Regional Geology (HKU)
 * 3D fold evolution
 * Detrital zircon geochronology
 * Geological deformation of Iceland
 * Geological history of Borneo
 * Geological history of the Precordillera terrane
 * Geology applications of Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy
 * Huangling Complex
 * Lesser Himalayan Strata
 * Mapping of Venus
 * Okavango Dyke Swarm
 * Monazite geochronology
 * Paleostress inversion
 * Pre-collisional Himalaya
 * Subduction polarity reversal
 * Tectonic evolution of the Aravalli Mountains

Spring Semester 2015: Evolution of the Terrestrial Planets (LSU)
 * Chaac-Camaxtli region
 * Ganis Chasma
 * Lada Terra
 * Ovda Regio
 * Secondary crater
 * Surface features of Venus
 * Tessera (Venus)
 * Zamama (volcano)

Fall Semester 2014: Plate Tectonics (LSU)
 * Continental arc
 * Deicke and Millbrig bentonite layers
 * Eastern Pilbara Craton
 * Geodynamics of terrestrial exoplanets
 * Geology of Enderby Land
 * Isua Greenstone Belt
 * Lwandle Plate
 * Main Central Thrust
 * Macquarie Triple Junction
 * Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt
 * Provenance (geology)
 * Salt surface structures
 * Southern Oklahoma Aulacogen
 * Strain partitioning
 * Subduction zone metamorphism
 * Sumatra Trench
 * Tectonics of the South China Sea
 * Titanium in zircon geothermometry
 * Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt

Spring Semester 2014: Development of the Terrestrial Planets (LSU)
 * Accruva Formation
 * Chloride-bearing deposits on Mars
 * Cleopatra (crater)
 * Devana Chasma
 * EETA 79001
 * Geodynamics of Venus
 * Ghost craters on Mercury
 * Inter-crater plains on Mercury
 * Irnini Mons
 * Kanehekili Fluctus
 * Martian lava tube
 * Mountains of Io
 * Yellowknife Bay, Mars

Fall Semester 2013: Plate Tectonics (LSU)
 * Earth's internal heat budget
 * East Antarctic Shield
 * El Tigre Fault
 * Erosion and tectonics
 * Geological history of the Chiricahua Mountains
 * Growth fault
 * High pressure metamorphic terranes along the Bangong-Nujiang Suture Zone
 * Illite crystallinity
 * Karakoram fault system
 * Mountains of Io
 * River bank failure
 * Semail Ophiolite
 * Tectonic evolution of the Barberton greenstone belt
 * Tilted block faulting

Fall Semester 2012: Plate Tectonics (LSU)
 * Eclogitization
 * Grouse Creek block
 * Intraplate deformation
 * Muruntau gold deposit
 * Opening of the North Atlantic Ocean
 * River terraces (tectonic%E2%80%93climatic interaction)
 * Slow earthquake
 * South Tibetan Detachment
 * Tectonic evolution of the Transantarctic Mountains
 * Tectonic influences on alluvial fans
 * Thick-skinned deformation
 * Western Interior Seaway anoxia
 * Xiong%27er Volcanic Belt

Fall Semester 2011: Plate Tectonics (LSU)
 * Archean life in the Barberton Greenstone Belt
 * Bangong suture
 * Crustal recycling
 * D%C3%A9collement
 * Dynamic quartz recrystallization
 * Geology of the Antarctic Peninsula
 * Magmatic underplating
 * River anticlines
 * Tectonics of the Tian Shan
 * Tectonic subsidence

My Sandbox

 * /sandbox 2012


 * /WikiTeachingSandbox

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 * /inclass16sandbox