Homework #2

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Semail Ophiolite

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Article 1 (A) Geology of Oman. (B) This page provides the geology of oman. (C) I would add more of geologic history and plate tectonic setting. (D)I think the successful part of the written communication is it the only page in wikipedia that have information about the geology of Oman but it need to be improved. (E) There are no visual communication so for sure we need to add couple to improve it.


Article 2 (A) Ophiolite. (B) This Page provides useful information about ophiolite. (C) I would add more information about semail ophiolite. (D) I think the successful part of the written communication is that they mention semail ophiolite but nothing more they can add more about this case . (E) There are visual communication about ophiolite suite but not about the semail ophiolite.


Article 3 (A) Plate tectonics (B) This Page provides useful information about plate tectonics plate motion around the are of interest. (C) More examples of special boundaries. (D) I think the successful part of the written communication is that it have a lot of information but it need more sections and sub sections. (E) There are visual communication are good but we need to add more.

Proposal

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I propose to make a wikipedia page on the Semail Ophiolite.


Outline

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Introduction

  • Where it is
  • What it is
  • How old it is


How it may have formed

  • How it formed.
  • what is special about it.
  • Evidence for plate tectonics.


The value of this article to the wide audience is to give a general knowledge about semail ophiolite, and for the specialist audience some details about it.

I intend to structure the page according to the outline given above. The original figure/figures I plan to create will be of the the plate tectonic behind the semail ophiolite. The reason of this figure/figures to show the Plate tectonics That make the ophiolite.