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This article is in need of revision, as summarized below. I restrict my comments here to the part that discusses "terrane theory". To begin with, the concept of tectonostratigraphic terranes is not a theory but rather one approach in trying to sort out the complex assemblage of geologic units in the western cordillera of North America. Jim Monger has made many important contributions, but he did not initiate this idea. In fact, the first mention I find of the term "tectonic terrane" appears in the 1970 paper by Bill Dickinson (J Sedimentary Petrology, v. 4, No. 2, P. 695-707) "Interpreting detrital modes of graywacke and arkose". Dickinson and others were using the term "tectonostratigraphic unit" in the 1970's and perhaps earlier. The term terrane, the sense of tectonostratigraphic unit, was in wide use in the early 1970's as well. My take is that the term "terrane" was in play in the late 1960's, as the concept of tectonostratigraphic terranes was initiated simultaneously in the western Cordillera of the US (Dickinson) and Canada (Monger) and New Zealand (Landis and Coombs). By the way, the wiki site on Terrane http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrane provides an excellent discussion of the term. -- MuTau ( talk) 01:20, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
This article really needs work, even to a complete restructuring. This is a BIG topic, with a LOT of material, and could be (should be?) a big article. But a dash-in, dash-out "fix" is not going to help. It really needs some one to adopt it, spend some time on digging through the materials and getting to know the topic. Even if such a person does not write the entire article just having a proposed structure would others to bite off portions to work on. I am going to add some links that might be of assistance to that end. - J. Johnson (JJ) ( talk) 20:51, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
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This article is in need of revision, as summarized below. I restrict my comments here to the part that discusses "terrane theory". To begin with, the concept of tectonostratigraphic terranes is not a theory but rather one approach in trying to sort out the complex assemblage of geologic units in the western cordillera of North America. Jim Monger has made many important contributions, but he did not initiate this idea. In fact, the first mention I find of the term "tectonic terrane" appears in the 1970 paper by Bill Dickinson (J Sedimentary Petrology, v. 4, No. 2, P. 695-707) "Interpreting detrital modes of graywacke and arkose". Dickinson and others were using the term "tectonostratigraphic unit" in the 1970's and perhaps earlier. The term terrane, the sense of tectonostratigraphic unit, was in wide use in the early 1970's as well. My take is that the term "terrane" was in play in the late 1960's, as the concept of tectonostratigraphic terranes was initiated simultaneously in the western Cordillera of the US (Dickinson) and Canada (Monger) and New Zealand (Landis and Coombs). By the way, the wiki site on Terrane http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrane provides an excellent discussion of the term. -- MuTau ( talk) 01:20, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
This article really needs work, even to a complete restructuring. This is a BIG topic, with a LOT of material, and could be (should be?) a big article. But a dash-in, dash-out "fix" is not going to help. It really needs some one to adopt it, spend some time on digging through the materials and getting to know the topic. Even if such a person does not write the entire article just having a proposed structure would others to bite off portions to work on. I am going to add some links that might be of assistance to that end. - J. Johnson (JJ) ( talk) 20:51, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
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