Talk:Taranaki Basin

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This article was the subject of an educational assignment in Spring 2015. Further details were available on the "Education Program:Louisiana State University/GEOL 4131: Basin Studies (Spring 2015)" page, which is now unavailable on the wiki.

O'Leary Review

Introduction: Great framework setting up your article. Good job at keeping your intro relatively simple and limited links to other articles (distracts the reader). I think some of the information included in the overview such as the location and dimensions - which are? Length/width?

Overview: Got a little lost with all the regions included in your basin, a nice picture (which may be added later) would help orient the reader. Not a grammar expert, but I don't think you need to capitalize the West in your first sentence and there after. Your last sentence ...is adjacent to the a large upthrust... pick either of em. I think you can combine these sentences:...The Western Platform is a relatively undeformed, stable block compared to the Eastern Mobile Belt. While it underwent block faulting throughout the Late Cretaceous to the Eocene, it has been stable since... mentioning stable again sounds repetitive. This section could be reworked into a better flowing sentence. I feel that you don't need to include the locations of on the west and one the east as It's kind of self-explanatory: The Western Platform extends beyond the continental shelf on the West, and is separated from the Eastern Mobile Belt on the East by the Cape Egmont fault zone, a northwest trending fault zone consisting of multiple subparallel reverse and normal faults. [9] The Eastern Mobile Belt consists of multiple grabens and contains multiple compressional features, including overthrusts, reverse faults, and inversion structures.

Development:

Basement Structure:spelling ...representing the orignal Gondwana Craton...

Rifting: check

Drift: spelling: During drift, a decline in sediment deposition ..occured..

Foreland: check Intra-arc: check

Stratigraphy: Overall looks great, I like that you have individual units that you defined.

Hydrocarbons: Interesting information you included.

Enjoyed the read, I'm sure your final will be spectacular.