User:Jkidd93/sandbox

A) Mid-ocean ridge
B) Fracture zones are along mid-ocean ridges, so obviously, this page is important to the topic.
C) A useful addition would be a section detailing how the ridges help us to determine the age of the ocean. Since it already talks about the spreading rate, this would be easy to add in a few sentences.
D) There is a lot of written information. I think it could be organized better by spending more time talking about individual topics.
E) The visual communication is excellent. There are a lot of diagrams and even an animation. Perhaps it would help to move the images at the bottom of the page in line with text and elaborate on why they are there.
A) Strike-slip fault
B) Strike-slip faults are due to lateral motion. Since transform faults are a special type of strike-slip faults and transform faults are the cause of fracture zones, this is important to the topic.
C) Strike-slip faults are actually part of the general fault page. Something useful would be to list known strike-slip faults.
D) The written communication is very concise. However, it would probably be best to elaborate on the topic for those who have no prior knowledge.
E) I think the visual communication, with two pictures, is more than adequate. Perhaps a picture of a focal mechanism could be added, but it is not necessary.
A) Transform fault
B) Transform faults are where plates slide past one another. It is important to this topic because that is what causes fracture zones to occur.
C) An expansion of the mechanics heading would do wonders. As it is, understanding the mechanics of a transform fault based on three sentences is not possible.
D) The written communication is really well done in the examples heading. The rest of the page would be excellent if it had even half of that work put into it.
E) I like the visual part of this page as well. There are a lot of diagrams which help to understand what the transform faults are. I would add a picture showing the mechanics better.
2) A) Fracture zones are areas along mid-ocean ridges where the ridge has become offset. They result from transform faults due to oceanic plate motions. Their importance lies in shedding light onto oceanic plate motions.
B) I somehow doubt too much of a wide audience will want to read about fracture zones, but any students studying seismology or mid-ocean ridges would certainly benefit from having a page on the topic.
As far as specialists go, fracture zones are important for seismologists, as they can reveal oceanic seismic activity that otherwise would go unnoticed. Since fracture zones occur along mid-ocean ridges, the offset of the ridge can be used to determine current and past plate motion.
C) I intend to structure the page as follows: A brief summary
Structure/formation of fracture zones
Importance of fracture zones
Examples of fracture zones
As far as original figures, it will likely be limited by my art skills, but I hope to provide an illustration showing how fracture zones are formed (as in a kind of step by step series of pictures with a mid-ocean ridge in the first, the formation steps, and the fracture zone in the last).