User:Mstev18/HW1

1. Related wiki pages
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tectonic-climatic_interactions
 * This wiki article shows the basics of how tectonics can cause climate change and vice versa. The value of this article lies in its basic information for the casual geologist, climatologist.
 * This article would be more useful if it was more detailed and proposed some evidence for an idea, and explained the mechanism more thoroughly.
 * This article is mostly successful in its use of "written communication". It explained the ideas clearly and concisely, though in less detail then is needed, maybe on a more specific page.
 * This article uses "visual communication" very poorly. Two of the three picture are just of mountains, not explaining anything about their relevance to the article. While the third picture is a diagram explaining only one of many points addressed throughout the page.


 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erosion
 * This wiki article explains the different types, processes, and causes of erosion and how it could effect humans, agriculture or local areas. Its value lies in its information of the different types and processes of erosion.
 * This article would be more useful if it had better visual communication, and if it addressed the effects of erosion on a larger scale, regionally.
 * This article was mostly successful with its "written communication", the format of the page, with content links to different sections made for easy navigation of a long article. This article is very vague and would benefit from being broken up into several more specific pages.
 * This article was fairly unsuccessful with its use of "visual communication", the aticle had few pictures and no more than a phrase for an explanation of their relation to the article or the section with which they were paired.


 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erosion_and_tectonics
 * This wiki page, though very slim, tries to explain the relationship between erosion and tectonics.
 * This article needs much more information,more details and explanations and examples with models and pictures.
 * This article is mostly unsuccessful with its "written communication" in that it is a very brief description of the topic. A more thorough explanation with evidence and models and pictures would help
 * This article is unsuccessful with its "visual communication" in that there are no pictures. This article is barely anything, but a solid wiki article should have pictures and/or diagrams with explanations.

2. River Anticlines
 * Description
 * Evidence
 * Formation processes
 * Erosion rates
 * Tectonic aneurysms
 * Examples

This new wiki page is valuable because it will explain the formation processes of river anticlines and the environments they form in. A page with new information will broaden the range of valuable information for the casual wiki viewer, and could serve as a reference for a geologist in search of an explanation to a problem. This page would be linked to a climate-tectonics or erosion-tectonics page.

This page will be structured similarly to a scientific paper. First an introduction followed by some observations to be explained. A hypothesis or the main idea of river anticlines will be stated and evidence will be provided. Erosion rates needed for formation will be discussed, and locations where they are seen, or general locations where they could form will be provided. Tectonic aneurysms will be explained and discussed. Figures and pictures will be provided throughout. A picture for the intro will provide the reader with a quick idea of what the article is about, visually. A figure of anticlines with no tectonic compression forming them will be created for evidence of a separate cause for anticline formation. An table or picture or figure will be provided to help explain the erosional forces needed. A figure will be created to break the formation process into steps for a detailed formation explanation. A figure will be provided for the formation of a tectonic aneurysm, and examples will be shown.