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Source Evaluation
The Geological Record of Ecological Dynamics: Understanding the Biotic Effects of Future Environmental Change.

This book investigates the biotic and ecosystems response through the geologic record to gain insight to how anthropogenic influence will effect the biochemical cycles into the future. This will also allow one to identify biotic responses to how the systems effect the surface of the earth climate conditions to predict future responses to these conditions. The geologic record will allow one to look into the past and predict future events by identifying chemical markers of the environments, atmospheric conditions, and biotic changes in the geologic record.By extrapolating, compiling, and synthesizing the data retrieved through each of these disciplines individual technologies.One can trace biochemical markers from the geologic record in coorditation with paleo environmental factors and biotic evidence to create high resolution images and graphs of ancient biotic variables. This allow one to assimilate models of the spectrums that supported the fluctuation in these conditions and make some prediction of future similarities. The high resolution results will allow one to paint a picture of future state of these biosphere dynamics. With these models there can be scientific based policy and management formed to address the environmental changes that face our societies and the "ecological dynamics" that affect our life-sustaining environment. The reports and models in this book act to inform Governments, NGO's, and policy makers of the history and projected future of environmental factors that are and can be detrimental to the viability of our life sustaining ecosystems and the chemical, atmospheric conditions that make this possible.

Article Evaluation

 * This article was full of links that would often take me off into rabbit holes of random knowledge. This would at times draw me from my initial inquiry and would even lose my attention at times.The citations were sufficient to follow as credible resources for information,but there were limited in depth descriptions that could be improved by including some more reference material. Throughout the article there are portions that are too wordy and this creates an overall blocky, or even choppy read. That being said the facts that were presented and could use more thorough referencing this may only make the article more choppy and hard to follow though due to the amount of individual proxy processes this article covers. It develops and explains some methods more completely than others often relying on one source for what seemed to be more opinion than fact based presentation in one of the methods explained. This Article's information was compiled from various sources. As I followed the individual links to see where the information was coming from there were multiple media and everyone I visited was credible. This article was a broad overview of multiple proxy methods for measuring time and then correlating the residual isotope evidence, and other physical markers to specific climate conditions. The information that this article contains is within my current understanding up to date even though there are portions that further elaboration would be more helpful. For example there is mention of two physical characteristics used in determining environmental conditions from the shape of leaves, but it only describes one method for determination. This is where I found the most room for improvement and it is my opinion that by adding these sort of minor details here and there would allow this article to flow in content with less choppy, or blockyness that I found my attention stumbling over. It was at these points while reading the article that I would feel like there should be more content, or example. This article had a few pictures and related images for reference that made the page interesting to view. These were referenced well in the article and cited in text in an orderly fashion. There were a few technical questions addressed in the Talk tab pertaining to chemical equations, percentage totals, various formatting details, and even a sourcing issue that involved a self sourced vs. secondary book issue.  This Article is rated C and is part of these wiki projects to various degree's ((wikiproject(S) Environment-High importance, Climate change-high importance, Geography-Low importance,Geology-C, History-C)) overall this article is a great leaping point, but it is best used as an encyclopedia over view rather than a in depth technical reference.

Brainstorming Research Paper
My research will cover possible drivers for the rapid heating and rapid cooling events that triggered an offset of the proxy recorded cycles of the earths climate temperatures.

About 11600 to 13000 years ago there was a major cooling of the earths atmospheric conditions known as the Younger Dryas where there was a warming period about seventeen hundred years before that had also been a sudden event that ended the hotter climate of the Pleistocene epoch where the Younger Dryas lasted about eleven hundred years. My research will focus on how plate tectonics have opened up and shifted the land masses to allow the aeolean movement of atmospheric temperatures that contribute to these cooling events, and the resulting gas exchange that is being released and stored in the atmosphere. To locate a possible driver for these changes in the proxy recorded cycles.I will be referring to the proxy record to gain insight to what markers are available to support the actual climate drivers of this cooling period. Because the spreading has produced evidence that the warming that has been happening on estimated ten to fifteen, or so million year cycles. The Younger Dryas is out of cycle with the proxy record of the spreading rate hypothesis that implies that the planet is out of it's warming cycle for the past fifteen million years. The reality of this is that even with the proxy records that are available there are no significant Biostratigraphic layering in the cores that can pinpoint an accurate sequence of what the initial driver is for the contrast in the change. This is generally due the geologic process of metamorphosis that preserves the isotopes, fossils, and other proxy that are used in forming these hypotheses and theories; as well as, the relative age of the ocean floors are much younger than the continental plates leaves no record of that far back into the earths past. The millennial time scale cycles are used in tracing these changes is forced by drivers. Many of these are cause and effect relationships that are interconnected and leave residual markers in the geologic record. The major driver I will be exploring will focus on the plate tectonics that shifted around huge land masses creating new paths of circulation in many of these interconnected feedback loops of the environments, ecosystems, and ultimately the climate. There is also anomaly events that disrupt these otherwise traceable and predictable cycles, so that will not be discounted in my research where valid evidence is available and recorded. It is also important for this to acknowledge that there is Lag time between the trigger events(cause) and effects that are recorded. These interconnections of cycles are what create the waves we put into graphics and are able to isolate particular patterns in the data to extrapolate correlation and causation. Because of these interconnections and things like the lag time and other variable inputs that are not constant it becomes harder to identify the pinnacle event, or driver. The science is good and developing, but there is still some sequencing that is in need to bring about answers for the amplitude of many of these climate drivers. My research will demonstrate that the source driver for these interconnected cause and effect relationships stem from tectonic forces shifting elements into the atmosphere where the gases are amplified by solar insolation to produce a positive feedback loop that has resulted in rapid increases and decreases in the planetary climate system durring the Younger Dryas period.



Note
1)Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences. "Water cycle amplifies abrupt climate change." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 19 January 2014. .

1)https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/01/140119142405.htm

2)Easterbrook Don-Younger Dryas- July 11 2019-https://www.britannica.com/science/Younger-Dryas-climate-interval

3)Raferty P. John-Volcanic Winter-Encyclopedia Britannica-Nov.26 2018-https://www.britannica.com/science/volcanic-winter

4)https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/aeolian

5)https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-and-planetary-sciences/pleistocene-epoch

6)https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/what-are-proxy-data

7)https://www.climatescience.org.au/content/365-c-drivers-climate-change

Image test

 * 1) Outline your research article (15 pts)
 * 2) * Statement and/or very short paragraph describing the focus of the review article (5 pts).
 * 3) * Have at least four sources relevant to the topic, used and cited properly in your writing (5 pts).
 * 4) * Your writing should be at least 600 words in good grammar and succinct and brief style (2 pts). It is acknowledged that is an outline only.

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