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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

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 * Extensional Fault


 * Article Evaluation
 * Article consists of a general description of an extensional fault, with links to terms including lithosphere and planar, and only has one reference.


 * Sources
 * Williams, G.D.; Powell C.E.; Cooper M.A. (2002). "Geometry and kinematics of inversion tectonics". In Holdsworth R.E. & Tuner J.P. (ed.). Extensional Tectonics: Regional-scale processes. Geological Society. p. 344. ISBN 978-1-86239-114-7 . Retrieved 2009-11-09
 * Van der Pluijm, Ben; Marshak, Stephen, (2016-2020). "Processes in Structural Geology and Tectonics". ISBN: 978-1-5323-0282-4; v2.6.2. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.1.2845.9126
 * K. R. McClay, P. G. Ellis; Geometries of extensional fault systems developed in model experiments. Geology ; 15 (4): 341–344. doi: https://doi.org/10.1130/0091-7613(1987)15 <341:GOEFSD>2.0.CO;2
 * Zhang, Xing, and Sanderson, David, J. (1996). "Numerical modelling of the effects of fault slip on fluid flow around extensional faults", Journal of Structural Geology, vol. 18, p. 109-119.

Option 2

 * Article title
 * Panama Plate


 * Article Evaluation
 * Very brief description of the location of the plate and the types of borders. Links are provided to terms including convergent boundaries and subduction zone. The article page only has one reference.


 * Sources
 * Bird, P. (2003). "An updated digital model of plate boundaries". Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. 4 (3): 1027. doi:10.1029/2001GC000252.
 * Mann, Paul, (1995) "Geologic and Tectonic Development of the Caribbean Plate Boundary in Southern Central America", Geological Society of America.
 * Pennington, W. D. ( 1981), Subduction of the Eastern Panama Basin and seismotectonics of northwestern South America, J. Geophys. Res., 86( B11), 10753– 10770, doi:10.1029/JB086iB11p10753.
 * Buchs, D. M., Arculus, R. J., Baumgartner, P. O., Baumgartner‐Mora, C., and Ulianov, A. ( 2010), Late Cretaceous arc development on the SW margin of the Caribbean Plate: Insights from the Golfito, Costa Rica, and Azuero, Panama, complexes, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 11, Q07S24, doi:10.1029/2009GC002901.

Option 3

 * Article title
 * White Nile rift


 * Article Evaluation
 * Article consists of two short paragraphs describing general location, surrounding structures and theory of probable formation. The page has six references.


 * Sources
 * S.E. Browne, J.D. Fairhead and I.I. Mohamed (10 March 1985). "Gravity study of the White Nile Rift, Sudan, and its regional tectonic setting". Tectonophysics. 113 (1–2): 123–137. Bibcode:1985Tectp.113..123B. doi:10.1016/0040-1951(85)90113-1. Robert Bowen, Ulrich Jux (1987). Afro-Arabian geology: a kinematic view. Springer. p. 143. ISBN 0-412-29700-0 .  Richard C. Selley (1997). African basins. Elsevier. p. 115. ISBN 0-444-82571-1 .  "Rocks for crops: Sudan" (PDF). University of Guelph. Retrieved 2011-01-27.  O. A. E. Abdalla. "Evapotranspiration computed by Darcy's Law: Sudan case study" (PDF). Retrieved 2011-01-27.  Terje Tvedt (2004). The Nile: an annotated bibliography. I.B.Tauris. ISBN 1-86064-879-7.
 * Abdalla, O. A., & E. (2009). Groundwater recharge/discharge in semi-arid regions interpreted from isotope and chloride concentrations in north white nile rift, sudan. Hydrogeology Journal, 17(3), 679-692. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10040-008-0388-
 * Kumarapelli, P.S. and Saull, V.A. (1966) "The St. Lawrence Valley System: A North American Equivalent of the East African Rift Valley System". Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 1966, 3(5): 639-658, https://doi.org/10.1139/e66-045

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