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 * Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you?
 * Yes, this article feels well structured yet there is not a lot of content on the topic.
 * Is the article neutral? Are there any claims, or frames, that appear heavily biased toward a particular position?
 * There is one statement that I found that I do not enjoy their structure of the sentence. They state that the 20th century was a revolutionary age for geophysics, yet it has not references to any actual published papers, so it feels biased.
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 * The viewpoints on what has been found in the field of geophysics is extremely lacking, yet the article goes more in-depth in the origin of the word over how geophysics is used.
 * Check a few citations. Do the links work? Does the source support the claims in the article?
 * All the citations do not have links rather are actual books. These books out of 14, only on is in English, which hinders the legitimacy of translation for the information in the article.
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 * No, there are some paragraphs where there are no sources at all and some where there are numerous. These sources seem to be neutral, yet they are all in a different language so it is hard to tell.
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 * Yes, there is a large amount of information that can be added to this article. The article does not even talk about the 21st century and theories that have arisen in the modern age.
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20th century
The 20th century was a revolutionary age for geophysics. Physics of Earth’s interior and seismology were developed by Emil Wiechert, Beno Gutenberg, Andrija Mohorovičić, Harold Jeffreys, Inge Lehmann, Edward Bullard, Charles Francis Richter, Francis Birch, Frank Press, Hiroo Kanamori and Walter Elsasser.

Knowledge of different types of waves produced from seismic events was better understood. The waves are broken up into body waves and surface waves, depending on if the waves travel through the earth or on it. Body waves include P-wave and S-wave while surface waves include Love wave and Rayleigh wave.

In the second half of the 20th century, plate tectonics theory was developed by several contributors including Alfred Wegener, Maurice Ewing, Robert S. Dietz, Harry Hammond Hess, Hugo Benioff, Walter C. Pitman, III, Frederick Vine, Drummond Matthews, Keith Runcorn, Bryan L. Isacks, Edward Bullard, Xavier Le Pichon, Dan McKenzie, W. Jason Morgan and John Tuzo Wilson. Prior to this time people had ideas of continental drift yet no real evidence of this came until the late 20th century. Alexander von Humbolt made observation, in the early 19th century that the geometry and geology of the shores of continents of the Atlantic Ocean. James Hutton and Charles Lyell brought about the idea of gradual change, uniformitarianism, which helped people cope with the slow drift of the continents. Alfred Wegener, the spearheaded the original theory of continental drift and spent much of his life devoted to this theory. Wegener proposed "Pangea" a land that was once all Earth in one section area.

During the development of continental drift theory, there was not much exploration that went on in the oceanic part of the world, only continental. Once people began to pay attention to the ocean, geologist found that the floor was spreading and in different spots at different rates. There are 3 different main ways in which plates can move: Transform, Divergent, and Convergent. As well, there can be Rift s, areas where the land is beginning to spread apart.

Geomagnetism

The motion of the conductive molten metal beneath the Earth's crust or the Earth's dynamo is responsible for the existence of the magnetic field. The interaction of the magnetic field and solar radiation has an impact on how much radiation reaches the surface of Earth and the integrity of the atmosphere. It has been found that the magnetic poles of the Earth have reversed several times allowing researchers to get an idea of the surface conditions of the planet at that time. The cause of the magnetic poles being reversed is unknown, and the intervals of change vary and do not show a consistent interval. It is believed that the reversal of magnetic poles is correlated to the Earths Mantle, exactly how is still debated.

Atmospheric Impact

Volcanoes form from when two plates meet and one subducts underneath the other. Volcanoes thus form along most plate boundaries the Ring of Fire is a good example of this. The study of Volcanoes along plate boundaries has shown a correlation between eruptions and climate. Alan Robock theorizes that volcanic activity can influence the climate and can lead to global cooling for years. The leading idea, based on volcanic eruptions, is that Sulfur dioxide released from volcanoes play a prominent effect on the cooling of the atmosphere following the eruption.

Peer Review Response
We want to fix the focus of the article for what we want to focus on. Originally we said we wanted to focus on the processes of what (man made) ways we can propagate seismic data. After tackling the article we have shifted the focused to more of the people that were influential and their ideas/impacts. I have gone through and changed our scope of the article to those ideas and topics. Nooneisnotthere (talk) 16:15, 23 March 2018 (UTC)

We chose this article because of the large lack of information available on the page itself. The page has more information about the history of the word, geophysics, than it does the actual processes and contributors of this field. We want to look at the people who influeced this field and their impact as well as their ideas and how they helped this science in the scientific community. Nooneisnotthere (talk) 16:20, 23 March 2018 (UTC)

We are working on getting more and more sources. Many of the sentences in the wiki page itself did not have many, if any, sources so we are working hard on finding more papers and texts to fill our section. We will continue over break to read papers and learn more for this. Nooneisnotthere (talk) 16:26, 23 March 2018 (UTC)