User talk:Mikenorton

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Mikenorton, I've made a mistake. The images are switched, because the cut plane isn't the same of the view plane. The image 1 is view looking in the plane of the S fabric and the image 2 is perpendicular.

Zimbres 20:33, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

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NZ location maps mass deletion

Hi Mikenorton, the New Zealand location map File:1888 North Canterbury EQ location.jpg that you uploaded has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests, the discussion is at Commons:Deletion requests/NZ location maps2. Benchill (talk) 09:23, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

Carnmenellis

Hello, In

there is a wrong spelling of the name. I hope you will be able to correct it.--Felix Folio Secundus (talk) 19:17, 16 January 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for spotting that. I will fix it, but possibly not till tomorrow. Cheers, Mikenorton (talk) 00:45, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

Fixed. Mikenorton (talk) 00:52, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

Thank you.--Felix Folio Secundus (talk) 10:25, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

Fracking data and diagram

Hi, we are starting a campaign against fracking in Slovenia (with ambitions to make it worldwide) and I would like to use and translate your fracking diagram for use in presentations, e-mails and later on a web page. If you would be kind enough to provide me with an editable image (and possibly some expertise) I would be really thankful. Please contact me at matic50 ( at ) gmail.

Thank you.

Matija Debevec (sorry for not being able to use Wikipedia properly and contacting you on your user page)

Hi Matija, I produced that diagram to help people understand something about the process and to indicate the potential ways in which fracking fluids could have environmental effects. I am not myself against fracking, as long as it follows strong guidelines such that these effects can be avoided. I would be happy to provide a Slovene version of the diagram, as long as I know the correct terminology. I would prefer to do this myself so that I can be sure that the resulting diagram remains as neutral as it was intended. Mikenorton (talk) 23:05, 14 June 2012 (UTC)

what makes Hoy standstone special/different

Hello Mikenorton,

I am wondering if there is something special/different about Hoy standstone compared to other stone son Orkney mainland? Also do you know if hoy standstone was used (in special cases) for buildings? In other words what makes it unique/special/worthwhile/different (or not worthwhile). I am working on an essay about neolithic settlements on Orkney and a possible relation with hoy hills (Ward hill and Culaigs: http://www.iol.ie/~geniet/maeshowe/eng/flashing.htm

Any help is welcome.

All the best,

Victor

Orkney geological map

Hi Victor, the shape of Hoy is all about the type of sandstone, as you've presumably guessed. These sandstones are part of the Eday Group, which varies in character across Orkney. At the time of deposition, there were a series of active normal faults (a bit like the Basin and Range province of the midwestern US now) and the continuous sandstone known as the Hoy Sandstone was deposited on the western side (the footwall or upthrown side) of one of these faults (the Rackwick Fault). To the east of the Rackwick Fault (the downthrown side) the sequence is thicker but still mainly sandstone, with a few more non-sandstone layers in it. This area is in the footwall of another fault, the Brims Fault, across which the sequence thickens eastward still further. The thicker sequence consists of three mainly sandstone layers (the Lower, Middle and Upper Eday sandstones), separated by much finer-grained sequences of the Eday Marl and the Eday Flagstone. In these areas the topography is much more subdued. The Eday sandstones have been used for building, most famously in St Magnus Cathedral, but I don't know if the Hoy sandstone has been used in any substantial way. I don't recall seeing any quarries that would indicate this. For most buildings the flagstones make excellent building material. If I've not made this clear, or you have any other questions, please let me know. Mikenorton (talk) 11:04, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

Thanks Mikenorton. Next time I am on Orkney I will see if Hoy sandstone is in some way used in Neolithic monuments. Most of them are indeed from flagstone I assume, like Standing Stones of Stenness and Ring of Brodgar. I thought that Maeshowe was also from flagstone. What do you think: http://www.maeshowe.co.uk/maeshoweabout.html ? There are these 'blocking stones' (on the ground now; see for instance http://www.maeshowe.co.uk/images/maeshowein34206304p.jpg ). Wonder if they are flagstones or sandstone?

Just asked the custodian of Maeshowe and they say that these blocking stones are 'Caithness stone'. Do you think this is closer to 'Stromness flag' or 'Hoy sandstone', or ...?

All the best,

Victor

Hi again Victor, I assume that Maes Howe is constructed from flagstone slabs (Stromness flags or Rousay I suppose) as both the Ring of Brodgar, Stones of Stenness and Skara Brae are for sure. I've never quite made it to Maes Howe, but I've visited the others. 'Caithness stone' would definitely be the flagstones, as Caithness used to export its flagstones around the world. These stones would have come from Mainland Orkney I imagine rather than Caithness. This book [1] suggests that the stone came from Cruaday Hill, still an active quarry on Mainland working the flagstones (Stromness in this case). Mikenorton (talk) 17:45, 7 July 2012 (UTC)

Hi Mikenorton, Thanks for this explanation/link and indeed I assume the stone did not come from Caithness (but I understand also that 'Caithness stone' is from the same 'bed' as Orcadian stone: http://www.gairland.com/stone.html

But what about these blocking stones? Do you think these are also flag or could they come from Hoy (I know it is difficult without a real visit)? Here is one for the small recesses: http://www.doughoughton.com/webpage/jpg/060/060856.jpg and here is the block that can close off the passage: http://www.monumental.uk.com/site/research/proj/acoustics/images/maeshowe2.jpg <on the left side is a large block of a few ton>

Thanks very much for your feedback, really appreciated.

AlL the best,

Victor

The Caithness flagstones were indeed deposited in the same lake as the Orcadian flagstones. The only stones in the tomb that are not obviously flagstone are the thicker slabs just beneath the opening, but the flagstone beds do get that thick occasionally - makes sense to get them all from the same quarry. The stone on the floor of the tomb beneath the opening (is that what you mean by blocking stone?) is almost certainly flagstone. Cheers, Mikenorton (talk) 22:36, 7 July 2012 (UTC)

Well-jointed flagstones in Caithness

Hello Mikenorton,

Indeed that stone (with some sloping sides) on the ground in front of the opening (recess) is a blocking stone. The other one (in the other picture and below this flat horizontal stone) is pushed back in a recess (and is very big: say 100*90 cm and than in depth a triangular form). One can pull it out of that recess and make it block the passage entrance.

So these all are flag stone (I thought flag stone would only make nice flat stones;-). Thanks for your input (and sorry for these naive questions).

All the best,

Victor

Happy to be of help - there are no naive questions. The flagstones do make good slabs but they are cross-cut by joints, which some times create rather small blocks (as can be seen in the picture from Caithness that I've added - note the rectangular blocks at the edge of the main bedding surface at the right), just ready to be trimmed into a blocking stone. Mikenorton (talk) 10:58, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

Thanks Mikenorton,

So the size and the sloping (non-rectangular) angles (http://www.iol.ie/~geniet/maeshowe/eng/scot10.htm section: The four blocking stones) is not something that can indicate if it is Hoy sand or Stromness flag. A pity, I had hoped something Hoy-ish (unstratified stone) was in these buildings;-) Thanks again for all your help. Much appreciated.

All the best,

Victor

Geology of Dorset

Hi Mike, I'm squinting a bit, but doesn't that say "Bacton Beds" rather than "Barton Beds"? Pterre (talk) 07:47, 20 August 2012 (UTC)

Hi Pterre, glad someone's keeping me honest - thanks, now fixed. Mikenorton (talk) 21:40, 20 August 2012 (UTC)

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File:HydroFrac.png

Hi Mike, first tahnks for your nice illustration: HydroFrac.png . I'm wondering if by chance you also have a vectorised form at hand, so it could be translated easier to different languages. Best would be an .svg. Cheers --Morray (talk) 07:28, 25 April 2013 (UTC)

Hi Morray, I've had trouble in the past uploading svg files created in inkscape, although I believe that I may be able to get round this by saving the file in Plain SVG format. Alternatively I could just e-mail you the original svg file. Mikenorton (talk) 14:28, 28 April 2013 (UTC)

If you don't mind just upload your Inkscape SVG to Commons. I can check what causes the problems and fix the graphics if there are any problems. It's mostly not a big deal (I do all SVGs in Inkscape myself). --Patrick87 (talk) 19:18, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

Great thanks. --Morray (talk) 19:47, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

Now uploaded as File:HydroFrac2.svg. Mikenorton (talk) 20:21, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

Thank you very much Mike! I think everything renders fine? I cropped borders and optimized the SVG file a bit but apart from that everything seems fine as far as I can tell. The only problem I encountered were the fraccing fluid containers that you've drawn as 3D boxes: When resizing the page their position changed. Actually this seems to be a bug in Inkscape (see the bug report I created) which I worked around by converting the 3D boxes to paths (Path -> Object to path in Inkscape). --Patrick87 (talk) 00:38, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

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Geogene (talk) 23:17, 17 December 2013 (UTC)

File:Usoi Sarez.png

Specify the real source of the image. This may not be your own work, if you do not own space satellites. Files without a known source are removed from the Wikimedia Commons. --Радион (talk) 09:06, 18 February 2015 (UTC)

The source was already made clear in the file description. I did forget to add the PD-Worldwind template - now added and I've copied some of the text from the description into the source. Mikenorton (talk) 12:41, 20 February 2015 (UTC)

File:Geologic Clock with events and periods.svg

Shouldn't the line connecting "First vertebrate land animals" be green? AnonMoos (talk) 08:19, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

Difficult though it is to see what was going on in Woudloper's mind when he drew up the original diagram, I'm going to guess that he added the connecting line (originally in white) to the land plants bar to show that they developed well after the plants appeared (boosting oxygen levels), but that's just a guess. We could change all of the connecting lines to black, so that they carry no implications. There's a discussion at en:Talk:History_of_Earth#Errata_and_placement_in_graphic_needs_correcting about further tweaks to this diagram. Mikenorton (talk) 10:33, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

Hi Mike, AnonMoos,

I followed the discussion at wp-en last week but saw no reason to react then and there. My activities on the Dutch Wikipedia (mostly improving Asia-related coverage and being a member of the Dutch arbcom) currently absorb most of my wiki time, but I keep a watch on WP-EN.

The new version of the diagram looks nice, but the lines supporting the texts were not meant to be in the same colours as the curved ones around the 'clock'. It seems more logical to make the former black.

The curved lines are to suggest increasing complexity by appearing at crucial steps in Earth history. They do not necessarily relate to the events mentioned.

Cheers, Woudloper (talk) 16:39, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

Thanks Woudloper, I'll change them to black when I do any more updates. Cheers, Mikenorton (talk) 12:38, 10 February 2016 (UTC)

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File:GGF.png

Mike, in File:GGF.png, have you drawn the fault lines onto a cropped version of File:Blank topographic map of the British Isles.svg (or similar)? If so, to avoid copyright violation, I suggest that the source field on your map's description page in Wikimedia Commons should be changed to acknowledge that your map is a derivative work of the blank base map. I don't think use of the blank base map is covered sufficiently by the phrase that you have used in the description field: "based on various published maps". GeoWriter (talk) 22:06, 24 January 2018 (UTC)

You're right Geowriter, I meant to include that but forgot - thanks for the nudge. Mikenorton (talk) 00:14, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

Re:Principales medios sedimentarios

Thanks to you for your original drawing. A cordial greeting, --PePeEfe (talk) 11:04, 6 May 2018 (UTC)

Active faults Puerto Rico

Dear Mike,

I am writing my bachelor thesis about the Puerto Rico earthquake swarm of last December and January. I could not find a good database for the faults south(-east) of Ponce, which are depicted in your figure (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%9320_Puerto_Rico_earthquakes#/media/File:Puerto_Rico_2019_2020.png). I was wondering if you could help me with finding this database, where did you get it or did you make it yourself? Thank you in advance, Fenna — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fenna2324 (talk • contribs) 10:06, 8 June 2020 (UTC)

Hi Fenna2324, the faults shown offshore to the south of Puerto Rico were taken from Bruña et al. (2015), specifically their Figure 3. Let me know if you have any further questions about that map and good luck with the thesis. Mikenorton (talk) 12:11, 8 June 2020 (UTC)

Hi Mike, thank you very much for your answer. Is there any database with the coordinates of these faults? Or did you just draw them yourself in your figure?

Kind regards, Fenna

They were just redrawn, after registering the Bruña et al. Figure 3 relative to the NOAA DEM Color Shaded Relief layer, which gave a very good fit - no database I'm afraid. Mikenorton (talk) 10:17, 19 June 2020 (UTC)

References

Greetings Mike Norton

I am writing to your user talk page to ask for help in citing a diagram you drew from the Aegir Ridge. I would like to use it in a 4th year Earth Science paper I am writing about the volcanism of Iceland wrt to Hawaii et al oceanic island. Your drawing so clearly describes why the Aegir ridge became inactive. Of course, I would have to cite you and I am not sure how to adequately do this as wiki pages are not permitted to be cited. Which in a shame because many are excellently written and referenced. Like you, I am a Wiki editor, however I have just started this winter so my contributions have been microscopically small.

ObliqueFault (talk) 05:51, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

Hi ObliqueFault, you may take this response as permission to use my diagram however you want, not that you really need that. The image is hosted at Wikimedia:Commons, which is a repository of images, so not actually Wikipedia. If it helps, I could send you a copy by e-mail, which would mean that you could cite it as a "personal communication". Mikenorton (talk) 09:00, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

Seeking Permission to Use Horton Bluff mid-Carboniferous Sill

Hi,

My name is Brett Ortler, and I'm the editor at Adventure Publications, a publishing company based in MN, AL, and OH. I'm writing because we'd like to use your image here in an upcoming book, The Earth Book: An Introduction to Geoscience. It's geared toward middle-grade kids, and it's part of our Simple Introductions to Science series.

The image is here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Horton_Bluff_mid-Carboniferous_sill.JPG

As we understand it, we can't use the image, as it's licensed by a Share-Alike provision; by one reading, the license would require us to share our resulting book in the same way. We'd therefore prefer to get outright permission to use the image.

We'd of course be happy to credit you in the book.

Let me know what you think; you can reach me at brett @ adventurewithkeen.com

Thanks!

Brett — Preceding unsigned comment was added by 2601:440:8400:C500:CCF1:DEEE:86B8:2B5A (talk) 15:00, 7 June 2022 (UTC)

Mt. Tambora

Mike, I see that you relabeled Eric's excerpted map of SE Asia Tectonic plates for the Mt. Tambora page. IMO, that map should be modified by shifting north and east, so that it more fully shows the major plate (blue with arrows) north of Nugini. Say, extend it to included ON in the north and SB in the east, while cropping a lot of empty space near India and Australia. This would present a fuller picture for Indonesia which is how you relabeled his excerpt. Martindo (talk) 21:41, 27 July 2023 (UTC)

I'll take a look at this - it's 14 years since I made the change(s), it was done for the en:Sunda megathrust page, not en:Mount Tambora. Mikenorton (talk) 19:37, 20 August 2023 (UTC)

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