User talk:Carleton2712/sandbox

Peer Review for Magnetite by Abineaga Muralitharan

There needs to be proper footnote citing that you can do using the wiki cite function. Overall the flow of the rough draft is very good, the paragraphs include enough detailed information. All the information is relevant, however I think that these paragraphs can be separated in to various sections. So far, I think the rough draft has a balanced coverage and all the content so far is not biased and has a neutral content.

Abineaga.m (talk) 22:22, 5 March 2018 (UTC)Abineaga.mAbineaga.m (talk) 22:22, 5 March 2018 (UTC)

Response to the Peer Review

Thank you for your review and your suggestions. I have fixed my citations to the proper footnote citing using the wiki cite function as you suggested. Reviewing my information and the information already on the magnetite page on Wikipedia page I agree with you and some of the information could fit better in other sections other than the distribution of deposits which was my focus. For example some of the information I am providing would fit better in the magnetic properties portion of the article as opposed to the distribution of deposits. When adding my information to the actual Wikipedia article I will keep this in mind and make sure I add it in the appropriate spots. Thanks again. Carleton2712 (talk) 21:41, 15 March 2018 (UTC)

comments from Sarah

1. Please identify yourself with your first and last name 2. This is a good start but I have some comments. (A) In the following paragraph:

• What section are you adding to?
• Your second sentence is not entirely correct. Once magnetite cools below the curie point, then yes, there is a frozen-in paleomagnetic direction but the paleomagnetic signal can change if an event occurs that results in the temperature of magneite rising above the curie point. If you're interested in paleomagnetism, many scientists circumvent this issue using the baked contact test. This test doesn't seem to be on Wikipedia so perhaps it is something you could address? (I didn't look thoroughly mind you). Perhaps you could link the paleomagnetism page.
• The last sentence doesn't fit. Can you create a section about detecting magnetite (or try to fit it in with remote sensing)?

Magnetite appears in a variety of different geological environments and is a very widespread iron oxide mineral. As magnetite is formed it aligns itself with the earth’s magnetic field at the time of formation and does not change. This is called paleomagnitism and shows a record of the earth’s magnetic field when the magnetite was formed and can show changes in the earth’s magnetic field and polarity through time[1]. If magnetite is in a large enough quantity it can be found in aeromagnetic surveys using a magnetometer which measures magnetic intensities[2].

(B) There is a major difference between the process which form magnetite beaches and processes that form banded iron formation. As it stands, these two concepts should not be in the same paragraph.

Magnetite is sometimes found in large quantities in beach sand. Such black sands (mineral sands or iron sands) are found in various places, such as Lung Kwu Tan of Hong Kong; California, United States; and the west coast of the North Island of New Zealand.[13] The magnetite, eroded from rocks, is carried to the beach by rivers and concentrated by wave action and currents. Huge deposits have been found in banded iron formations. These sedimentary rocks have been used to infer changes in the oxygen content of the atmosphere of the Earth.[14] — Preceding unsigned comment added by TA ERTH4303 (talk • contribs) 00:18, 21 March 2018 (UTC)

response to Sarah

Hey Sarah just added my name to the top of my sandbox but just to be sure it's Connor Fowke My focus was Distributions but upon further review some of my information could have gone under magnetic properties as well. Reviewing the actual magnetite page most of my magnetic properties information was already there so I only added minimal information and stuck with my focus of distributions of magnetite. Carleton2712 (talk) 02:25, 23 March 2018 (UTC)