Talk:Eclogitization

This article is very well done. It covers a large amount of material related to the subject and is very well organized. It is well written with few grammer mitakes and explaines the process very well. The figure is clear and is relavent to the expaination of the material and there are many referances to your sources. You have included many links to other articles in order to help explain your subject but a few more could be added for the different types of rocks for people who might not know about geology. - David Pipkin — Preceding unsigned comment added by DavidMP1 (talk • contribs) 12:55, 23 October 2012 (UTC)

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Eclogitization is the tectonic process in which the high-pressure, metamorphic rock, eclogite is formed and consequently effects a change in densities, kinematics and plate motion of subduction zones. <---- take a second look at this sentence and make sure you aren't using too many commas. You may want to break it into two sentences.

There is the argument that collision between two continents should slow down because of continental buoyancy. For convergence to continue, it should do so at a new subduction zone where oceanic crust can be consumed.[1] Certain areas such as the Alps, Zargos, and Himalayas have led geologist to believe there is "continental undertow" that continues subduction. Of the many factors leading to this "continental undertow". Eclogitization is one of the leading processes that is thought to be the fuel to continuing subduction after slab detachment in a subduction zone. <---- I was confused by the placement of this. It seemed like it was missing some kind of opening sentence. You go straight from talking about the characteristics of eclogite facies straight into something about continent collision. The paragraph is good but it needs something to tell me what I'm reading.

The Geologic Setting and Effect of Eclogitization section starts out pretty strong and when I first start reading it I'm not really sure what direction its going in. As Webb says, Tell the reader what you are about to tell them before you tell them. You may want to add a sentence or two in the initial paragraph (before the table of contents) just sort of describing where are you going with the article as a whole. why is ti important, and how are you going to show it is important in the rest of the article?

The localities section looks good. A cool figure might be just a list of all the localties with links to somewhere one might find additional resources, but it isn't necessary

The Fluid Influence section is good but could use more. Exactly how does fluid affect the process at the chemical level? In what volumes is fluid needed to keep the process going? If fluids are needed, would eclogitization only occur in deeply subducted oceanic crust? If not where else would the fluids come from? This section would be a really good chance to cite some high brow academic papers on thermodyanmics and metamorphism, and to include some really detailed data on exactly what role fluid plays. I know this is pretty modern as far as discovery so it would be good to have it in the article

The Western Gneiss Region and the Bergen Arc of Western Norway <---- double check this section for spellings

Mechanical Models <---- this is another section that you could use to provide some hard data comparisons and cite some academic articles — Preceding unsigned comment added by Abenne1 (talk • contribs) 20:47, 12 November 2012 (UTC)