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Author Topic:   The Geology Glossary
Dr Adequate
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Message 1 of 2 (592020)
11-18-2010 12:51 AM


There are certain technical screw-ups in the geology glossary. It's not even that you've got it wrong, it's that it's formatted wrong.
Let me give you an example. Here's your definition of "abrasion":
Abrasion The mechanical wearing away of a rock by friction, rubbing, scraping, or grinding. absolute time Geologic time measured in a specific duration of years (in contrast to relative time, which involves only the chronologic order of events).
You see what you've done wrong? What it ought to look like is this:
Abrasion The mechanical wearing away of a rock by friction, rubbing, scraping, or grinding.
Absolute time Geologic time measured in a specific duration of years (in contrast to relative time, which involves only the chronologic order of events).
We can see this again in the definitiom of the word "atom". According to the glossary, the definition is:
Atom The smallest unit of an element. Atoms are composed of protons, neutrons, and electrons. attitude The three-dimensional orientation of a bed, fault, dike, or other geologic structure. It is determined by the combined measurements of the dip and the strike of a structure.
Obviously what it should look like is this:
Atom The smallest unit of an element. Atoms are composed of protons, neutrons, and electrons.
Attitude The three-dimensional orientation of a bed, fault, dike, or other geologic structure. It is determined by the combined measurements of the dip and the strike of a structure.
These are my criticisms of the letter A. I shudder to think how often you've screwed up the other 25 letters of the alphabet.

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11-19-2010 8:26 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by Dr Adequate
11-18-2010 12:51 AM


In the early days of EvC Forum before Wikipedia and powerful search engines I tried to attract visitors by increasing content, and the geology and biology glossaries resulted from that effort. Because there is only one of me I wrote scripts to do much of the work instead of doing all the typing myself, and mistakes like the ones you describe are probably not uncommon.
There seems little use for these glossaries in today's Internet, but maybe I'm wrong about that. Hold on sec, let me check the web stats for those pages...
Wow, I'm surprised! They're in the top 30 at positions 24 and 28, about 440 hits in October. That's nowhere close to the number of hits for message display with 1,636,000 hits or even the forums list page with 17,500 hits, but it's still respectable.
Would you be interested in making the fixes? Or maybe recruiting someone?

--Percy
EvC Forum Director

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