Talk:History of geophysics

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The English in this article is terrible! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 146.23.68.4018 (talk) 18:49, 10 June 2008

"Greek Seismology" - A Good Source

Just wanted to leave this here in case anyone was interested. [1] --Hamsterlopithecus (talk) 14:17, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

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Archive link didn't work. RockMagnetist(talk) 21:46, 16 March 2018 (UTC)

I went in and recited the source to give more information about it. I kept the link just in case, but it is linked to MST Commons which requires a login unfortunately.Markhampton8 (talk) 14:58, 13 April 2018 (UTC)

Evaluation of this Article

Hello Friends,

I just wanted to leave an evaluation of this article for anyone that wants to view and see what could be improved on. There is a large lack of actual information regarding geophysics. The article does not address the 21st century and discoveries made. There is no talk of the different types of waves that propagate out and their respective information. This article can use lots of work and I plan on adding sources and sections into this in the future.

Cheers! Nooneisnotthere (talk) 17:34, 16 February 2018 (UTC)

Good luck with your endeavor! You seem to be off to a promising start in your sandbox. I have been aware this article was in serious need of work for some time, but it's a little daunting because the subject is so broad and there are no coherent surveys of it as a whole. But I have added a collection of sources that you may find useful. Also check out History of geomagnetism (which so far only covers the subject up to the 18th century), History of Geology and Seismology#History. RockMagnetist(talk) 23:10, 16 March 2018 (UTC)

Article Edited

My class partner and I added to the 20th century section. We made subsections and reorganized the information that was there previously as to fit with the information that we added.Markhampton8 (talk) 16:07, 6 April 2018 (UTC)

Copyrighted content removed

It turns out that the section Origin of the word, in addition to being overly detailed and obscure, was taken almost verbatim from the article The Assembly of Geophysics: Scientific Disciplines as Frameworks of Consensus by Gregory A. Good. I deleted it. The article by Good is an excellent source for the early history of geophysics, so I have added it to Further reading. RockMagnetist(talk) 16:40, 7 April 2018 (UTC)

Links to Kovel website

Some citations from the Treatise on Geophysics point to a website where the entire treatise is hosted. The treatise is an 11 volume set, so that's not useful - even if you can get past the paywall. I took the effort to track down the specific chapter that some of the information came from and provided a proper citation, but @Markhampton8 undid that work. I am going to restore it. The source for the information on P- and S-waves and K and I shells is in some other part of the Treatise and the chapter needs to be identified. RockMagnetist(talk) 16:22, 13 April 2018 (UTC)

I apologize for that. I was attempting to fix the citations after seeing the edits you had made and I must have undone one that you'd made. I will take a look at the P and S waves and K and I shells and recite that. Markhampton8 (talk) 19:39, 20 April 2018 (UTC)

I found a better source for the P and S waves which also talked about Love and Rayleigh waves. I ended up removing the sentence about K & I terminology relating to the layer the sources penetrate. Thank you for working with me to correct these citations.Markhampton8 (talk) 20:40, 20 April 2018 (UTC)