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Article Evaluation

Article: Transition zone (Earth)

The topic of the deep Earth transition zone is shows relevance as evidenced by the references in the article in addition to the high importance rating. The article has stayed relatively up to date with the latest reference being a textbook from 2015. Through a quick google scholar search, there has been a few publications from the years 2017-2018 discussing the mineralogy and chemical reactions in this transition zone. In addition, the sections "410km discontinuity" and "660km discontinuity" can be grouped into one larger section. The section on "other discontinuity" is lacking in the discussion of the "spin transition zone". Finally, the article is particularly disorganized in the discussion of seismology and mineralogy in each section. The citations listed in the article were still active and is relevant. The academic articles referenced were of high impact journals (Science, and Journal of Geophysical Research) and the textbooks used were of well known publishers (Cambridge University Press and Springer).

Unfortunately, the talk page of this article is not active with only one comment stating that the reference should be more "standard" which I assume to be textbooks. The article is rated of High-importance with a "Start" quality by WikiProject Geology. The one comment in the article is quite different from the classroom discussions as it comments on the types of reference that benefits the article.

Choosing a topic

Shock/Dynamic Compression: This topic is a missing article in Wikipedia but is an incredibly important experimental technique to interrogate material under high pressure. I believe that this topic is relevant and may be Wikipedia worthy as it has resulted in numerous high impact scientific articles in addition to a few notable textbooks such as Zel'dovich and Raizer's Physics of Shock Waves and High Temperature Hydrodynamic Phenomenon (1966, 1967 and edited 2002) and Forbe's Shock Wave Compression of Condensed Matter (2013)

Transition zone (Earth): This topic has already been started but can be improved upon.

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