Talk:Eocene Okanagan Highlands

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The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk) 01:27, 2 September 2022 (UTC)

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• ... that the Eocene Okanagan Highlands have been called one of the great Canadian lagerstätten? Source: Archibald et al (2011). "Great Canadian Lagerstätten 1. Early Eocene Lagerstätten of the Okanagan Highlands (British Columbia and Washington State)"
  • ALT1: ... that the Eocene Okanagan Highlands span approximately 1,000 km (620 mi) through British Columbia and Washington? Source: Archibald et al (2011). "Great Canadian Lagerstätten 1. Early Eocene Lagerstätten of the Okanagan Highlands (British Columbia and Washington State)"
  • ALT2: ... that the Eocene Okanagan Highlands have been compared to the Virunga Mountains in the African rift valley? Source: DeVore, et al (2020). "Urticaceae leaves with stinging trichomes were already present in latest early Eocene Okanogan Highlands, British Columbia, Canada". American Journal of Botany. 107 (10): 1449–1456.
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Moved to mainspace by Kevmin (talk). Self-nominated at 15:02, 15 August 2022 (UTC).

• Starting review now. -- RoySmith (talk) 23:20, 1 September 2022 (UTC)
• Article is new enough and long enough.
• Article has appropriate in-line citations to WP:RS.
• Earwig detects no copyvios, and all the images appear to be appropriately licensed.
• All three hooks are correctly formatted and cited to WP:RS.
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• Good to go.

Very nice work, thanks for the submission. At first glance, I suspect this is very close to GA quality, so you might also want to submit it there.

-- RoySmith (talk) 23:36, 1 September 2022 (UTC)

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What does "Republic" mean in this context? Macdonald-ross (talk) 11:54, 30 September 2022 (UTC)

• Macdonald-ross It is referencing Republic, Washington, county seat of Ferry County, Washington, where the largest exposures of the Klondike Mountain Formation are.— Preceding unsigned comment added by kevmin (talk • contribs)

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Moved @Reidgreg: feedback from user talk:Kevmin,

Thanks for your article Eocene Okanagan Highlands! A couple notes:

• The Southern sites include the Princeton Group Allenby Formation sites surrounding Princeton, British Columbia, such as "Nine Mile Creek", "One Mile Creek", "Pleasant Valley", "Thomas Ranch", "Vermilian Bluffs", and "Whipsaw Creek". The most southerly of the Okanagan Highlands lakes, the Klondike Mountain Formation in Northern Ferry County, Washington, include the "Boot Hill site", "Corner Lot site", "Gold Mountain site", "Knob Hill site", and "Mount Elizabeth site". I'm a little confused about the use of lakes here. Is it a geological term? Is it referring to ancient lakes no longer extant?

• I would point to the opening sentence of that section which stars with The majority of the lake deposits are compression fossils in lake bed sediments spanning a 1,000 km (620 mi) transect, which have been grouped informally into "Northern", "Central", and "Southern" sites. However I have clarified by updating lake(s) in the introduction and first sentence of the extent section to "paleolakes".--Kevmin § 01:20, 21 November 2022 (UTC)

• The earliest work in south and central British Columbian sites was during exploratory expeditions under the leadership of George Mercer Dawson This introduces a new section. Could there be something more specific than work here? Perhaps "geology work" or "geological study"?

• clarified with the addition of geological.--Kevmin § 01:20, 21 November 2022 (UTC)

• the newly devised process of potassium–argon dating to better understand the geochronology of the sites. The first report of P-Ar dating The linked article provides the abbreviation K–Ar dating.

• indeed, I have corrected to K-Ar--Kevmin § 01:20, 21 November 2022 (UTC)

• The term "Okanagan Highlands" for Eocene formations of the region was by Wesley Wehr and Howard Schorn in a 1992 Washington Geology paper Perhaps "was proposed by"?

• I have added "coined"

• MOS:RANGE recommends between X and Y, not between X–Y. However, I think this might make passages a bit cumbersome and it doesn't seem confusing at all.

Thanks again for this great article! – Reidgreg (talk) 15:40, 20 November 2022 (UTC)

• I'm not totally certain what X-Y statements this comment is in reference to? All measurements in the article are generated via the {{Cvt}} and {{convert}} templates.--Kevmin § 01:20, 21 November 2022 (UTC)

  This crops up at most of the places where between introduces a range. For example: the highlands are thought to have been between 500–1,500 m (1,600–4,900 ft) in elevation. MOS prefers and to the dash. This can be accomplished with {{cvt|500|and|1500|m|ft}} which produces: between 500 and 1,500 m (1,600 and 4,900 ft). – Reidgreg (talk) 22:33, 4 December 2022 (UTC)