Talk:Tacora/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Ceranthor (talk · contribs) 19:15, 7 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I'll be reviewing this in the next few days. ceranthor 19:15, 7 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Lead

"Bordering Peru, it is the northernmost volcano of Chile" - I'd link Peru here
"Tacora itself is a stratovolcano with a caldera and a crater; it is heavily eroded by glacial activity and its youngest radiometric age is 50,000 years ago." - seems like you're combining too many ideas here; maybe break into a few sentences?
"north-south alignment" - north-south should have an ENDASH
"Tacora itself has uncertain reports of historical eruptions and features ongoing fumarolic activity." - to a lay reader, "features ongoing fumarolic activity" is unclear; be more clear to a general reader perhaps?
Third paragraph is good, but I think it can be combined with the second

All done save the last item; given that the volcano is known for its sulfur mining operations it probably stands better on its own. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 20:14, 8 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Geography and geomorphology

First and second paragraphs can be consolidated I think.
"Tacora is part of the Central Volcanic Zone,[4] one out of several volcanic zones of the Andes.[3] The Central Volcanic Zone is one of the world's major volcanic provinces and features both a high density of volcanoes and some of the tallest volcanic edifices in the world.[5]" - too much repetition of the word "zone"
"The volcano is a cone with a summit caldera that opens northwest and a 500 metres (1,600 ft) wide crater below the summit[3]" - needs an |adj=on parameter for 500 metre
"scarp[8]." - citation should go after the period
"Steep mafic" - worth briefly clarifying what mafic means
"there is trace of a sector collapse scar and of the resulting debris avalanche on the southeastern flank.[10]" - grammatically this seems off; is it supposed to say "there are traces"?
"Three sets of moraines " - link moraine?
"Tacora has been prospected for geothermal power generation.[19]" - can you elaborate a bit on this? what did they find? and by whom?

I think it may be better to keep generic geographical from geological information. Will need to go looking for geothermal. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 20:14, 8 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Geology

"These volcanically active zones are separated by zones where recent volcanism is absent and the subducting plate descends in a much shallower angle.[24]" - maybe replace the second use of 'zones'
"About 17 volcanoes are at least fumarolically active in northern Chile, with igneous activity limited to about 6" - I'd rm the "at least" here
" the first of which was dominated by dacitic-rhyolitic ignimbrites and the second by composite volcanoes, with vigorous activity during the Pliocene and Pleistocene.[28]" - might have to reduce some of the jargon here by explaining what "dacitic-rhyolitic ignimbrites" means for example
"The volcano is constructed by " - comprised of is better
"andesite and chiefly dacite[10] " - why say chiefly dacite second if it's more dacite than andesite?

Done. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 20:14, 8 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Eruptive history

"Tacora was active during the Pleistocene and Holocene[4]" - add "epochs" after Holocene
"The crater is probably the most recent manifestation of volcanic activity, as may be lava flows on the southern flank.[3]" - maybe "along with lava flows" is better than "as may be"

Done. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 20:14, 8 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Mining and sulfur

"which precipitates the mineral in cavities of rocks" - better as "in rock cavities"
"A. Barrón, Filomeno Cerda, Luis Koch and Rosa Landaeta owned sulfur deposits on Tacora in 1897" - is the first name not known?

No. Got the other things. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 20:14, 8 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Mythology

"In local belief, Tacora and Sajama were two mountains in competition between each other for two women" - can cut out "between each other"; also are they actually seen as mountains or as spirits/deities?
"Tacora subsequently which fled, shedding blood and a piece of its heart.[48]" - don't think you meant to include "which" before "fled"
"Other" seems like a trivia/cruft section. I think you could combine that section into the mythology section somehow by altering the title of that section a bit

Source isn't specific. I've renamed the "other" section but I am not actually sure if there should be one. Got the other issues. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 20:14, 8 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

References

Ref 15 shouldn't be capitalized for consistency's sake. Same with refs 20, 31, and 48.
In refs 18 and 19, why do the bibcode and doi, respectively, skip to a new line? Is that just the formatting on my computer?
Refs check out. Will do spotcheck later.

Probably a computer thing. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 20:14, 8 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Looks great! Once these are fixed, this should be good to pass. ceranthor 17:42, 8 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Jo-Jo Eumerus: I'll pass this. I suggest looking to see if there's more available on geothermal resources, but that isn't totally necessary for this becoming a GA. Nice work. ceranthor 20:29, 8 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]