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Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1

Article title: Tephra

Article Evaluation: The article has several good qualities. The article’s content is relevant to the topic. There are 6 sections: the Lead, Overview, Classification, Etymology, References, and External Links. The report is written neutrally using only facts about tephra. However, one negative quality is its references. There is only one reference thats a blog. The talk page includes several discussions. The most recent was posted in January 2018 and was about adding more external links.

Sources:

Riley, C.M. Tephra, Michigan Technological University, 1993, www.geo.mtu.edu/volcanoes/hazards/primer/tephra.html.

“Volcano Hazards Program.” Volcano Hazards Program, USGS, 2 Feb. 2016, volcanoes.usgs.gov/vhp/tephra.html.

Ponomareva, Vera, et al. “Tephra without Borders: Far-Reaching Clues into Past Explosive Eruptions.” Frontiers in Earth Science, vol. 3, 22 Dec. 2015, doi:10.3389/feart.2015.00083.

Ayris, Paul Martin, and Pierre Delmelle. “The Immediate Environmental Effects of Tephra Emission.” Bulletin of Volcanology, vol. 74, no. 9, 16 Nov. 2012, pp. 1905–1936., doi:10.1007/s00445-012-0654-5.

Arnalds, Olafur. “The Influence of Volcanic Tephra (Ash) on Ecosystems.” Advances in Agronomy, Dec. 2013, pp. 331–380., doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-407685-3.00006-2.

Option 2
Article title: La Brea Tar Pits

Article Evaluation: There are several positive aspects to this article. The report's information is relevant and has 10 sections: the Lead, Formation, History, Scientific recourse, Flora and fauna, Human presence, Popular culture, See also, References, and External Links.The article has a neutral tone and contains details about the La Brea Tar Pits and provides up to date information on recent scientific research, like Project 23. There are 32 reliable citations that come from a variety of sources like the State Office of Historic Preservation, books, scientific magazines, and research papers. The talk page includes several discussions. The last conversation was posted in May 2018 and was about deleting unimportant sections, like Etymology, and making them footnotes instead.

Sources:

Holden, Anna R., et al. “Leafcutter Bee Nests and Pupae from the Rancho La Brea Tar Pits of Southern California: Implications for Understanding the Paleoenvironment of the Late Pleistocene.” PLoS ONE, vol. 9, no. 4, 9 Apr. 2014, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0094724.

Ward, J. K., et al. “Carbon Starvation in Glacial Trees Recovered from the La Brea Tar Pits, Southern California.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 102, no. 3, 10 Jan. 2005, pp. 690–694., doi:10.1073/pnas.0408315102.

Gerhart, Laci M., et al. “Glacial Trees from the La Brea Tar Pits Show Physiological Constraints of Low CO2.” New Phytologist, vol. 194, no. 1, 20 Apr. 2011, pp. 63–69., doi:10.1111/j.1469-8137.2011.04025.x.

Heusser, Linda. “Direct Correlation of Millennial-Scale Changes in Western North American Vegetation and Climate with Changes in the California Current System over the Past ∼60 Kyr.” Paleoceanography, vol. 13, no. 3, 04 May 1998, pp. 252–262., doi:10.1029/98pa00670.

Millar, Constance I. “Geologic, Climatic, and Vegetation History of California.” United States Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station, 2012, www.fs.fed.us/psw/publications/millar/psw_2012_millar003.pdf.

Option 3
Article title: Pleistocene

Article Evaluation: The article is well-written for several reasons. The content is relevant to the topic and is written in a neutral style. The report has 10 sections: the Lead, Etymology, Dating, Deposits, Paleogeography and climate, Fauna, See also, Notes, References, and External links. There are 10 different graphics. Some of the most relevant graphics include a picture of the maximum extent of the ice sheets, a graph of the atmospheric C02 levels, and a bar chart showing the different Hominin species that existed during the Pleistocene. The article contains 33 reliable citations that come from a variety of sources like the International Commission on Stratigraphy, International Union of Geological Sciences, Cambridge University, and several other scientific papers. The talk page includes many discussions. The newest was uploaded in November 2019 and was a disagreement over the description of the first graphic in the article.

Sources:

Johnson, W. Hilton. “Pleistocene Fauna and Flora.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 30 July 2018, www.britannica.com/science/Pleistocene-Epoch/Pleistocene-fauna-and-flora#ref70017.

Loehle, C. “Predicting Pleistocene Climate from Vegetation in North America.” Climate of the Past, vol. 3, no. 1, 12 Feb. 2007, pp. 109–118., doi:10.5194/cp-3-109-2007.

Cowling, Sharon A. “Tropical Forest Structure: a Missing Dimension to Pleistocene Landscapes.” Journal of Quaternary Science, vol. 19, no. 7, 27 Sept. 2004, pp. 733–743., doi:10.1002/jqs.881.

Kastner, Thomas P., and Miguel A. Goñi. “Constancy in the Vegetation of the Amazon Basin during the Late Pleistocene: Evidence from the Organic Matter Composition of Amazon Deep Sea Fan Sediments.” Geology, vol. 31, no. 4, 31 Apr. 2003, p. 291., doi:10.1130/0091-7613(2003)0312.0.co;2.

Sage, Rowan F. “Was Low Atmospheric CO2 during the Pleistocene a Limiting Factor for the Origin of Agriculture?” Global Change Biology, vol. 1, no. 2, Apr. 1995, pp. 93–106., doi:10.1111/j.1365-2486.1995.tb00009.x.

Option 4
Article title: Boreotropical flora

Article Evaluation: Since the article is a stub, it is extremely short and could benefit from many additions. The article provides 2 sentences defining boreotropical flora and has 3 sections: the Lead, See Also, and References. Therefore, the content is relevant and neutrally written. It has one good citation from the website of Dr. Imogen Poole, from the University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen. There is only one discussion on the talk page and it is about how the article should include more information about how boreotropical flora forests were different from the forests of today.

Sources:

Wei, Ran, et al. “Eurasian Origin, Boreotropical Migration and Transoceanic Dispersal in the Pantropical Fern GenusDiplazium(Athyriaceae).” Journal of Biogeography, vol. 42, no. 10, 22 June 2015, pp. 1809–1819., doi:10.1111/jbi.12551.

Smedmark, J. E. E., and A. A. Anderberg. “Boreotropical Migration Explains Hybridization between Geographically Distant Lineages in the Pantropical Clade Sideroxyleae (Sapotaceae).” American Journal of Botany, vol. 94, no. 9, 1 Sept. 2007, pp. 1491–1505., doi:10.3732/ajb.94.9.1491.

Hernández-Damián, Ana L., et al. “Fossil Flower OfStaphyleaL. from the Miocene Amber of Mexico: New Evidence of the Boreotropical Flora in Low-Latitude North America.” Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, vol. 108, no. 4, 2018, pp. 471–478., doi:10.1017/s1755691018000701.

Allen, Geraldine A., et al. “The Impact of Pleistocene Climate Change on an Ancient Arctic-Alpine Plant: Multiple Lineages of Disparate History InOxyria Digyna.” Ecology and Evolution, vol. 2, no. 3, 20 Mar. 2012, pp. 649–665., doi:10.1002/ece3.213.

Denk, Thomas, et al. “The Pleistocene Floras (2.4–0.8 Ma) – Shaping the Modern Vegetation of Iceland.” Topics in Geobiology Late Cainozoic Floras of Iceland, Feb. 2011, pp. 555–645., doi:10.1007/978-94-007-0372-8_11.

Option 5
Article title: Holocene glacial retreat

Article Evaluation: The Wikipedia page on Holocene Glacial Retreat is enjoyable to read for a number of reasons. The content is relevant to the topic and has 5 sections: the Lead, Geographical alterations, See also, References, and External links.The article is written neutrally using information about different Holocene glacial retreats and includes 4 graphics. Some of the more interesting graphics include a picture showing glacial activity after 1970 and 2 graphs showing sea level and temperature changes during the Holocene. There are 11 reliable citations that come from a variety of scientific journals including Antarctic Science, Quaternary Science Reviews, and Andean Geology. The talk page includes several discussions. In January 2019, dialogue was started about adding more reliable sources to the New Zealand subsection of Geographical alterations.

Sources:

Jomelli, Vincent, et al. “Irregular Tropical Glacier Retreat over the Holocene Epoch Driven by Progressive Warming.” Nature, vol. 474, no. 7350, 2011, pp. 196–199., doi:10.1038/nature10150.

“Glacial-Interglacial Cycles.” National Climatic Data Center, National Centers for Environmental Information, 2019, www.ncdc.noaa.gov/abrupt-climate-change/Glacial-Interglacial%20Cycles.

Lawson, Dan. “Holocene and Historic Glacier Activity and Climate Change in Glacier Bay (U.S. National Park Service).” National Parks Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, 2019, www.nps.gov/articles/historicglacieractivityinglacierbay.htm.

“The Climate of the Holocene.” ATMO336 - Fall 2017, The University of Arizona, 2017, www.atmo.arizona.edu/students/courselinks/fall16/atmo336s2/lectures/sec5/holocene.html.

García-Ruiz, José M, et al. “Holocene and ‘Little Ice Age’ Glacial Activity in the Marboré Cirque, Monte Perdido Massif, Central Spanish Pyrenees.” The Holocene, vol. 24, no. 11, 2014, pp. 1439–1452., doi:10.1177/0959683614544053.

--Mikabella95 00:55, 28 February 2020 (UTC)