Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ram Bow Bluff

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The result was merge. I chose Stephenson Bastion as the merge target for now. Geschichte (talk) 16:39, 20 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Ram Bow Bluff[edit]

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Unsourced article about a seemingly insignificant random cliff. Squeeps10 ^{Talk to me}_{My edits} 06:56, 12 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete Ten years ago one user decided to mass-produce thousands of articles that merely copied and pasted material from the USGS with no further sources, coverage, or assertion of notability. Explore articles in Category:Cliffs of Coats Land, which contains this, and the web of categories in Category:Landforms of Antarctica, most of which are generic landforms about which little more than the naming is known. Few pass WP:GEOLAND#4. Reywas92^Talk 07:42, 12 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Comment There are mentions of this formation in several articles, but I wonder if it would be better incorporated into the article on Shackleton Range. It ought to be mentioned somewhere, even if it doesn't warrant its own article. —Noswall59 (talk) 10:58, 12 November 2020 (UTC).[reply]
I agree with Noswall - this should be merged or listified somewhere, but it's not notable enough for a standalone. SportingFlyer T·C 14:12, 14 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Comment, lets look at WP:NGEO's "This page in a nutshell" - ".. and named natural features, with verifiable information beyond simple statistics are presumed to be notable.", a quick gsearch brings up an entry in the australian Antarctic Data Centre Gazetteer (oh, what wikipedia is meant to be, a gazetteer:)) that it was described by Fuchs and Hillary during the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition, here the naming is confirmed in Alberts' Geographic Names of the Antarctic, this paper by Clarkson that appeared in the British Antarctic Survey Bulletin describes the Turnpike Bluff Group in which Ram Bow Bluff (RBB) appears to be quite a prominent part of the Stephenson Bastion (see cross-section CD of fig. 8. page 17), this paper (Metamorphic and Structural Evolution of the Southern Shackleton Range during the Ross Orogeny) by Buggisch etal. that appeared in Polarforschung includes geologic description of RBB throughout. Coolabahapple (talk) 18:19, 17 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

ps. as for the nominators comment - "a seemingly insignificant random cliff.", need to remember that what can be seen of these formations is above the ice ie. "The summits of the Shackleton Range and Theron Mountains protrude above the EAIS as nunataks at up to 1.8 km above sea level, while the bed at the floor of the Recovery, Slessor, and Bailey troughs is as deep as 2.5 km below sea level; the ice thickness in these glaciers exceeds 3 km [Fretwell et al., 2013."]. Coolabahapple (talk) 18:24, 17 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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