Talk:Muruntau gold deposit

I know I'm supposed to know these things, but, I'm not sure there is a difference between transform and transcurrent faults? What is it? It doesn't much matter - if there is a difference, it's something that can be explained in a sentence - it doesn't require a wiki page. You'll need a new topic.

I think the topic is definitely interesting and it deems a page on wikipedia. What made you choose that? You should add a map on your page pinpointing where exactly the Muruntau gold deposit is within Uzbekistan because I have no idea. For you self-made image possibly draw something explaining the tectonic setting or one of the large deformation events that took place to form the gold deposits. Obviously the references are a little messed you'll be able to figure that out in class Monday when we go over everything. Structure wise you have everything laid out well maybe try and find a few more references and get some more info on the page. - John Martin (jantho6) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jantho6 (talk • contribs) 18:39, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

Suggested Edits for Structural Geology of the Muruntau Gold Deposit, Kyzylkum Desert, Uzbekistan by Austin Bennett

Edits will be listed by Section.

I'm going to address your references section first.

In your article, the FIRST time you use a reference, you put the complete reference including the reference tag behind that sentence. Then, when you want to use the same reference later in the article, you only put the reference tag behind the sentence. Make sure your reference tag in the initial complete citation and the reference tag that you use later are the same. You don't need to have the complete references typed out in the reference section, the reflist link will add them from the article automatically. You don't seem to have a reference that goes with the reference tag "ore deposits 1" or with "Geochemical 1" unless that was supposed to match "Geochemistry". I will recite your last section as an exmaple. Notice that I type out the full reference IN the text of the article, and then only use the reference tag later on, and only have reflist typed out for the reference section.

Late Mesozoic and Tertiary Deformation

Open folds which are post-Tertiary in age are superimposed on the Hercynian deformation. These folds occur in Tertiary exposures approximately 50 km to the south-west of the Muruntau deposit. Furthermore, a 70 to 100 km of right-lateral movement occurred along the Karatau fault during the late Mesozoic and early Tertiary period.

References

Now I will continue with edits of the article:

Overview Paragraph

It is usually good to bold the main subject of the article in the first sentence. "not until the nineteen fifties, however," you may want to consider "not until the 1950s, however," You want to be sure to link any proper nouns or confusing geologic terms to other existing or even nonexisting wikipedia articles. If you can find articles for "Kyzyl Kum Desert", "Uzbekistan", "Muruntau gold deposit", "Auriferous quartz", and "Silk Road" I would add those. This section needs to have every fact cited. I would say any statistic on the gold mine size, production, date of discovery, etc should be cited by one or more sources. More citations will help add weight to your statements and article, and will help increase your references section. For this article you should want 7 to 12 references. Even if references repeat the same information as other references you already have, it will only help to show statements in the article as fact.

Tectonic Setting

Link "basement" to the wikipedia article on geology basement. Link any geologic age names to wiki articles on those because most people don't know what they mean. If they exist (or even if they don't) link any Formation names to wikipedia articles on those formations. Link orogeny names as well.

Deformaton

You may want to only have three equal signs in the formatting of Deformation instead of the current four so that is another section equivalent to Tectonic Setting and not a subsection of Tectonic Setting. I think that would make more sense.

The breakdown of different deformations is fantastic as far as amount of data and evidence goes. There is a lot of stated factual information in these sections and you want to be sure to have multiple references for each sentence. I'm sure multiple studies have been done on these topics, so if one paper you find on this information references other papers with similar information, you should look up those papers and reference them as well. More references, even when they give the same information, can only help your article. Many people use wikipedia as a starting point for further research of a topic by using the reference section to find more papers.

General comments

I think this is a very well put together article. The figure needs some work and I'm sure you have a plan for that, at the moment I'm not completely sure what it is showing.

You may want to add a final section that outlines the significance of this deposit to plate tectonic theory. Have any studies been done using this area as a case study to determine larger-scale plate tectonic processes with respect to any of the orogenies or deformations that have occurred here? If so, I think that would be enough to merit this as an important topic to be discussed with respect to plate tectonics.

Peer Review Ryan Boucher

Overall I like the idea of the article. The way it's structured is nice, although adding a concluding section on how this relates to plate tectonics would really help. The amount of information given is really good but it needs to be explained or helped by adding a lot more figures and internal links to other wiki articles. Without those things, people who don't know much about geology wouldn't understand anything you put in the deformation section. You should have a map showing where this place is and maybe an image of the mine. I assume you are going to add more to your figure and explain what it is. As for your references just refer to what Austin wrote or see how others made their references. You could also use more references. Having around 10ish i think would be good. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rbouch2 (talk • contribs) 22:51, 21 October 2012 (UTC)