Talk:Archean life in the Barberton Greenstone Belt

Review By Stephen Reed

• Intro
• The intro discusses the big picture and why this subject is important which is good, but I think that you could probably shave off a sentence of why its important or make it a little more discriptive of the topic.
• Global beginnings of life
• the abiogenic link doesn't work
• Tectonic History
• I think that you could probably condense these first two sections into one or maybe switch the order, your talking about the correlation of life between your area and australia in the first then later see that these areas were once the same area in a supercontinent.
• Evidence for life
• Maybe try to tie this in more to the big picture, because I got lost but that's probably because I have no background on the area.
• Fossil Record
• We get an overall picture of how these rocks contian fossils, try to tie that into the specific area a little bit more.

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Sreed16 (talk • contribs) 23:58, 15 November 2011 (UTC) 

Sean Jensen's Review

1. Since the term "abiogenic" does not have a working link in the "Global beginnings of life" section, maybe it wouldn't be a bad idea to give a brief explanation of what it is since it's not so obvious. If you really wanted to then you could even make a page for it with a very brief description.

2. Maybe it wouldn't hurt to add another picture, perhaps in the tectonic history part, in order to give the reader a better understanding.

3. I think the "Evidence for life" section was done really well with the list.

4. Everything else looks pretty good, except that some of the terms can be linked to other pages still. For example, "Onverwacht" can be linked to "Onverwacht series." — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sjense2 (talk • contribs) 07:26, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

Logan Kirst's Review

Corey, after reading through your page I honestly couldn't find one major mistake or problem! Other than a link that didn't click, I thought you did a Good job! I really like how you organized your page and gave it a direction. You start with tectonic history, then get into the meat and potatoes in evidence for life, and finish with future applications. Obviously you had to withhold much of what you know and will do in the future regarding this study and taking that into consideration your page may not be in it's finest form but its pretty close! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lgkirst (talk • contribs) 14:35, 17 November 2011 (UTC)

"hostile early earth"

Of course life didn't evolve in a "hostile" early earth. The editor may have been feeling that an atmosphere lacking free oxygen would be hostile to a Wikipedian editor.--Wetman (talk) 19:26, 27 November 2011 (UTC)

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Contradictory Information

This article appears to contradict itself concerning the occurrence of microfossils in igneous formations.

"4. True microfossils should occur in a geologically plausible context (for example, there are no microfossils in igneous rock, because life cannot grow in molten lava).

Fossil record

The oldest microfossils from the Barberton Greenstone belt are found in the Onverwacht Group, specifically, in both the Kromberg and Hooggenoeg Formations.[1] Both of these formations are predominantly igneous rock; ... "

Mandilion (talk) 17:10, 26 December 2017 (UTC)

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