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Proposed Merge

The way the Aleutian Trench article is written, it includes more information on the Alaska-Aleutian megathrust than that article contains. I think these articles should be merged because 1) Both features are caused by the subduction at this plate boundary, and will contain a lot of redundant information if properly fleshed out. 2) This article currently contains more information about the megathrust and its seismicity than the article on the megathrust. 3) People looking for information on this plate boundary should not need to find both articles in order to get all the information. 4) There simply isn't enough information in total to justify multiple pages.

Elriana (talk) 16:22, 8 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Strong support – I stumbled across these duplicate articles a while back, and contemplated crafting a plan for remediation, but only got as far as bookmarking them. Thanks for the proposal, Dawnseeker2000 03:12, 9 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Plans to edit

Hello fellow Wikipedians, I am taking a course in Marine Geology and Geophysics, and I am planning to edit this article as a part of my class project. I will be adding more details on the formation of the trench, how they discovered the trench, and add a subsection of Aleutian arc to discuss the magma formation and composition. Please let me know if you have any thoughts on my plans to edit. This is a tentative plan, so if I find more reliable sources as I do more research, this plan might change. Thanks. —Neo Culture Technology (talk) 21:40, 10 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hello all, Here are the tentative references for my plans to edit:

Coats, R. (1962). Magma type and crustal structure in the Aleutian arc. Geophysical Monograph, 92-109.

Fracture zones and magnetic anomalies south of the Aleutian Trench. (1969). Journal of Geophysical Research, 74(6), 1488-1494.

Magnetic anomalies and their relation to the Aleutian Island Arc. (1968). Journal of Geophysical Research, 73(14), 4637-4646.

Earthquakes, plate subduction, and stress reversals in the Eastern Aleutian Arc. (1983). Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 88(B11), 9347-9373.

Marlow, M., Scholl, D., Buffington, E., & Alpha, T. (1973). Tectonic History of the Central Aleutian Arc. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 84(5), 1555-1574.

McCarthy, J. W., & Scholl, D. (1985). Mechanisms of subduction accretion along the central Aleutian Trench. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, 96(6), 691-701.

Ryan, H., Von Huene, R., Wells, R., Scholl, D., Kirby, S., & Draut, A. (2012). U. S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, U. S. Geological Survey Professional Paper. "History of Earthquakes and Tsunamis Along the Eastern Aleutian-Alaska Megathrust, with Implications for Tsunami Hazards in the California Continental Borferland".

The evolution of forearc structures along an oblique convergent margin, central Aleutian Arc. (1989). Tectonics, 8(3), 497-516.

The Aleutian Arc: Tectonic blocks, episodic subduction, strain diffusion, and magma generation. (1977). Journal of Geophysical Research, 82(2), 213-230.

More changes are to be made to this list, but please feel free to let me know if there are any suggestions. Neo Culture Technology (talk) 00:25, 24 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

That's a pretty good list of references for the geology/geophysics. Don't forget that this is also a geographic/hydrographic feature. The geomorphology should be described, and, if possible, some of the oceanography and observed biology. There are also methane seeps:

Levin, Lisa A., and Guillermo F. Mendoza. "Community structure and nutrition of deep methane‐seep macrobenthos from the North Pacific (Aleutian) Margin and the Gulf of Mexico (Florida Escarpment)." Marine Ecology 28, no. 1 (2007): 131-151.

Elriana (talk) 18:29, 26 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]