Talk:Geology of England

I've taken and adapted and added information from the Geology of the United Kingdom to create this page. I'm aware that it does not have any references and I'll go and look for some. SuzanneKn 22:07, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

Geological Map

Mais oui! removed the geological map from this article, and commented in the edit summary that "England is not synonymous with Great Britain". I've added it back in for the time being, because I think it's quite an important change, and ought to be discussed. My personal view is that, while it covers an area bigger than England, it's incredibly useful to have in the article. There are (as far as I'm aware) no equivalent maps showing just England that we could substitute. The map was also correctly labelled as 'UK' not 'England', so the problem isn't that it fails to acknowledge the difference. I actually found the map more useful than the article for answering the question which promted me to find this page. It would probably be useful to link to the Geology of the British Isles page though, for people who do want Scotish/Welsh/Irish geology, so I'll add a link. Eve 12:26, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Yes I agree with you, the map is essential. It's not ideal but it's much more difficult to understand the geology without it. SuzanneKn 20:59, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

I also agree that the map is essential. In fact I believe that it is ideal, geological understanding is not limited by transient national boundaries although it is even more interesting when they (almost) correspond. That is part of the reasoning for including the map of Avalonia, the Solway to Holy island boundary is overlain by subsequent Carboniferous limestone stretching beyond the border at Berwick. 80.229.29.19 Feb 14 2007.

It would also be very nice but I haven't found one to see how the sedimentary layers of chalk in SE England follow through into N France SuzanneKn 12:50, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

Try this one from Southampton university. [1] it gives a clear view of the french chalk etc. Anons cannot upload images and I don't know how. Good luck.

There are now various regional articles with maps cut down from the main one (eg Weald#Geology; London Basin). Unless anyone objects strongly I will produce one covering England, though showing the neighbouring parts of Scotland and Wales. Pterre (talk) 20:54, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Assessment

I gave it a B. The history section is good, but other parts are missing, such as economic geology which would have a big contribution to England in the past. There could also be mentions of unique or famous rocks, famous geologists, museums with collections, hazards. GB 10:21, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

Article structure and content

I've made a start on structuring the article but much more needs to be done to bring it up to a reasonable standard. cheers Geopersona (talk) 20:42, 14 February 2012 (UTC)