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= Mendocino Fracture Zone =

Movement/Tectonics of the fracture zone
describe the amount of movement with numbers.

Location and Bathymetry
source here

Seismicity
source here

Good choice of citation on the Blanco Fracture Zone page William Wilcock (talk) 22:53, 16 April 2017 (UTC)

Week 2: Articles Critique
''These are good and quite thoughtful critiques. I like the way to describe specific examples rather than just expressing generalities'' William Wilcock (talk) 04:42, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

Plate Tectonics
Some of the facts are not referenced maybe because of being a 'general fact', or has links that support it, especially at the first paragraph of this article and. The Venus and Mars subtopics have information not supported by any source. Implications of Biogeography section seems like a stub in itself, which bothers me and I wish that there was more information in it. Also, in the Subtopic of Formation and break-up of continents, The Himalayas part seem out of place and is unnecessary to get the point across. I think the Alfred Wegener picture is not necessary in this page, as it does not relate directly to the topic.

Some of the website resources are from 10 years ago. There might be changes now, so I think its necessary to fix those. In the talk page, I didn't know how much discussion to expect. I was surprised at the consideration of other theories, even if its biblical, and how some people would advocate for their own work. I also found 2 outdated website links, with one of them of a major concern since it does not support certain facts it claims and just links back to this Wikipedia page. I mentioned this in the Talk pages.

''I agree with all your comments. The article does seem rather like something that has been edited and augmented by too many people so that it is now too long.'' William Wilcock (talk) 04:40, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

Transform Faults
I'm surprised on how much detail they put into differentiating a strike slip fault and transform faults as boundaries. Some people seem use those terms interchangeably. Again there are some info that needs citation. Calling something 'best-known' is not clear enough. Also, the subtopic about transcurrent faults and the first 2 paragraphs of the Examples has no citations at all. The transform fault types subtopic has one journal article as a citation. This journal article has been cited 1000+ times based on a quick google search, so I'm not quite sure whether having only one source for this topic is acceptable. The talk on this page is not as active as plate tectonics, maybe because this is not a theory.

''I think they are right about transform faults being major strike-slip faults that form plate boundaries. There are lots of small strike-slip faults that would not be described as transform faults'' William Wilcock (talk) 04:40, 10 April 2017 (UTC)