Template:Did you know nominations/Los Frailes ignimbrite plateau
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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 07:24, 10 February 2018 (UTC)
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Los Frailes ignimbrite plateau edit
- ... that the Los Frailes ignimbrite plateau has a volume of about 2,000 cubic kilometres and volcanism may have continued into the Holocene? Despite its prominance, large volume (2000 km3) and the mineralization in its satellite units,,Since its lavas poured out over moraines of the last glaciationwhich occurred at some 11,000 years ago,its inferred ageis Holocene.
- Reviewed: Stuart Mustow
Created by Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk). Self-nominated at 16:17, 28 January 2018 (UTC).
- Reviewing. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 23:33, 28 January 2018 (UTC)
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Policy compliance:
- Adequate sourcing:
- Neutral:
- Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:
- AFAICS, yes, I did only a spot check of the 27 citations.
Hook eligibility:
- Cited: - a) hook facts cited in body, but not where they first appear (i.e. in lede); b) "volume of about 2,000 cubic kilometres" verified from cited sources, but I don't see holocene mentioned in abstract of cited source[1]. Is it in the paywalled full paper?
- Interesting: - It's OK. Geology will rarely sell a tabloid, but I didn't know that ppl calculate the volume of plateaux, so that interests me. I don't see the significance of this; how unusual is it?
- Other problems: - NA
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Overall: 
Well-written, elegantly presented, and impressively thoroughly-referenced to scholarly sources. Just a few minor probs listed above, plus:
1) I count 10 links to disambiguation pages, which should be fixed. (Easiest way to identify them: Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-gadgets, scroll down to "appearance", and enable Display links to disambiguation pages in orange. It's the 5th-last item in that section.)
2) thicknesses "range from an average of 100 metres (330 ft) to a maximum". It is not possible to "range from an average to a maximum": if some are above average, others must be less than average. Some rephrasing needed.
If any cited facts rely on a paywalled full version of a paper (rather than just the abstract), I recommend adding |subscription=yes to the {{cite journal}} entry. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 00:35, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
- @BrownHairedGirl:
- Yes, the Holocene bit is in the full text.
- 2000 km3 is a fairly sizable volume for an ignimbrite province. Now a lot depends on whether you treat Los Frailes as a single volcanic unit or as a volcanic complex (slightly less impressive in that case since e.g Altiplano-Puna volcanic complex is about ten times larger). Also, most such volcanic systems don't have eruptions in the Holocene - Yellowstone has had only steam explosions and the Altiplano-Puna volcanic complex only geothermal fields like El Tatio and ground deformation like Uturuncu.
- What is ppl?
- Disambiguations repaired. I notice that none of our articles on Condor Nasa and Villacollo appear to correspond to the ones mentioned in the text.
- Reworded thicknesses.
- Added the "registration required" flags. I note that I access these sources via a institutional access, so I am not 100% certain whether some of these require a subscription rather than mere registration.
- Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 10:11, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
- @Jo-Jo Eumerus:
- Thanks for the fixes and prompt reply. And sorry I used the lazy "ppl" abbreviation for "people".
- Your explanation of the significance of the size and the holocene era is v. helpful to a non-geologist like me. Just a suggestion, not a DYK criteria issue: would it be possible to put some of that sort of info in the article, to help our non-specialist readers understand the significance?
- Anyway, all issues resolved. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 14:23, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
AGF on paywalled source> All other issues resolved, so good to go. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 14:26, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
- Added a statement on the size, nothing on Nuevo Mundo as that volcano has very little written about. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 14:45, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
