User:GeoWriter

This is a Wikipedia user page. This is not an encyclopedia article. If you find this page on any site other than Wikipedia, you are viewing a mirror site. Be aware that the page may be outdated and that the user to whom this page belongs may have no personal affiliation with any site other than Wikipedia itself. I'm a geologist, specialising in volcanoes and volcanic rocks, but I'm also very interested in all aspects of geology.

I have been contributing to Wikipedia since October 2006.

Since 2009, I have been uploading photos of geology to Wikimedia Commons. My Wikimedia Commons photo gallery I also categorise geology photos and add details to geology photo descriptions and locations.

Please click here to leave me a message on my Talk page. Thanks.

Articles created

 * Geology of Germany - my English translation of the original article in German Wikipedia.
 * Quartzolite
 * Francesco Serao - my English translation of the original article in Italian Wikipedia - to activate a wiki link in article Lava that had been a non-existent red link for 13 years
 * Geology of the Canary Islands

Major revisions

 * major revision of Ring of Fire

Redirects created

 * Volcano prediction - a redirect to Prediction of volcanic activity
 * Ophiolites - a redirect to Ophiolite
 * Geologic Pediment - a redirect to Pediment (geology)
 * Billings Volcanoes - a redirect to Billings Volcanos (basketball)
 * Hawaii Volcanoes (basketball) - a redirect to Billings Volcanos (basketball)
 * Boss (geology) - a redirect to Stock (geology)
 * Silexite - a redirect to Quartzolite
 * North Alpine foreland basin - a redirect to Molasse basin
 * Crystal fractionation (geology) - a redirect to Fractional crystallization (geology)
 * Antarctic Peninsula cordillera - a redirect to Antarctandes
 * Magmatic fractionation - a redirect to Fractional crystallization (geology)
 * Megafossil - a redirect to Macrofossil
 * Relative dating (linguistics) - a redirect to Historical linguistics
 * Namakier - a redirect to Salt glacier
 * Taphrogenesis - a redirect to Rift
 * Colluvial material - a redirect to Colluvium
 * Lithogenesis (geology) - a redirect to Petrogenesis
 * Miaolingian - a redirect to Cambrian Series 3
 * Wuliuan - a redirect to Cambrian Stage 5
 * Senonian - a redirect to Late Cretaceous
 * Prasinite - a redirect to Greenschist
 * Ata (mountain) - a redirect to Tipas
 * Greda (landform) - a redirect to Paha (landform)
 * Idiomorphic - a redirect to Euhedral and anhedral
 * Northumberland Basin - a redirect to Northumberland Trough
 * French-American Mid-Ocean Undersea Study - a redirect to Project FAMOUS
 * Volcanic eruption forecasting - a redirect to Prediction of volcanic activity
 * Belomorides - a redirect to Belomorian Province
 * Pyroduct - a redirect to Lava tube
 * Norm (geology) - a redirect to Normative mineralogy
 * Hercynides - a redirect to Variscan orogeny
 * Moho (geology) - a redirect to Mohorovičić discontinuity
 * Tephritic phonolite - a redirect to Tephriphonolite
 * Sarmatian (age) - a redirect to Serravallian
 * South Shetland Plate - a redirect to Shetland Plate
 * Longmyndian - a redirect to Longmyndian Supergroup
 * Laach Lake - a redirect to Laacher See
 * Contact aureole - a redirect to Metamorphism
 * Konzentrat-Lagerstätte - a redirect to Lagerstätte
 * Dolomitic Alps - a redirect to Dolomites
 * Digital geological mapping - a redirect to Digital geologic mapping
 * Girdle of Fire - a redirect to Ring of Fire
 * British Tertiary Igneous Province - a redirect to North Atlantic Igneous Province
 * Microgabbro - a redirect to Diabase
 * Microgranite - a redirect to Granite
 * Pangaean megamonsoon - a redirect to Pangean megamonsoon
 * IMA symbols - a redirect to List of mineral symbols
 * Midlandian - a redirect to Last Glacial Period
 * Reverse grading - a redirect to Graded bedding
 * Dienerian - a redirect to Induan
 * Griesbachian - a redirect to Induan
 * Plateau lava - a redirect to Flood basalt
 * International Geological Time Scale - a redirect to Geologic time scale
 * Tellurbismuth - a redirect to Tellurobismuthite
 * Oceanization - a redirect to Oceanisation
 * Bedding surface - a redirect to Bed (geology)
 * Neosome - a redirect to Migmatite
 * Soufrière Volcanic Center - a redirect to Qualibou
 * Sediment pollution - a redirect to Siltation
 * Quesnoin - a redirect to Diterpene
 * Volcanic edifice - a redirect to Volcano
 * Edifice (volcanic) - a redirect to Volcano
 * List of possible impact craters on Earth - a redirect to List of possible impact structures on Earth

Geology

 * Geology articles - recent changes
 * WikiProject:Volcanoes - watchlist
 * List of all geology articles (by importance)
 * Geology articles needing specific improvements (by alphabetic)
 * Geology articles needing specific improvements (by improvement type)
 * WP:Geology watchlist
 * WikiProject Geology
 * WikiProject Volcanoes
 * Category: Geology
 * Portal: Volcanoes
 * Category: Volcanoes
 * Volcano Number
 * Smithsonian GVP Volcanoes of the World citation
 * WikiProject Volcanoes articles by quality log
 * Geology articles needing expert attention
 * Geology - Most popular pages - Last month's page views
 * Category:All WikiProject Volcanoes (Talk) pages

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Edit Count
 * X!'s edit counter

What articles link to an article? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Whatlinkshere/xxxxxxx where xxxxxxx is url version of article title (e.g. List_of_rock_types) not wiki version (e.g. List of rock types)

Page views of articles created by user xxxxxxx https://pageviews.wmcloud.org/userviews/?project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&namespace=0&redirects=0&range=all-time&sort=views&direction=1&view=list&user=xxxxxxx

Sandbox subpage

 * User:GeoWriter/Sandbox
 * User:GeoWriter/Sandbox2
 * User:GeoWriter/sandbox3
 * User:GeoWriter/Sandbox4
 * User:GeoWriter/Sandbox5
 * User:GeoWriter/Sandbox6
 * User:GeoWriter/Sandbox7

Random things that I have learned from Wikipedia

 * East Anglia in England is named after the Anglia (peninsula) region of Denmark and Germany, but East Anglia is west of that Anglia. (I already knew that East Anglia is actually an eastern part of the other Anglia: Kingdom of East Anglia).
 * Somalia has mean daily minimum temperatures usually above 15°C but it has a national bandy association. Bandy is like (field) hockey on ice.
 * August seems to be a good month to observe pumice rafts.
 * The West Pacific Ocean is in the Eastern Hemisphere; the East Pacific Ocean is in the Western Hemisphere (because east and west are defined by the boundary between the east and west hemispheres on the other side of the world at Greenwich in London).
 * Geyser is an English word for an eruptive hot spring. The word is a common noun derived from a proper noun — the name of a major geyser named "Geysir" in Iceland — but the Icelandic word for a geyser is actually goshver not geyser.