Talk:Afar Triangle

message: I'm wondering if the Afar Depression is the same place as Denakil/Danakil? Wikipedia does not yet have an article for the latter. Or is one place located within the other?  Glad to see this article, at any rate. Thanks! -- Gyrofrog  (talk) 04:34, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes it is. A redirect would probably in order, and a mention of the term Danakil (I see it's been done already). Zyzzy, it's great to have this article, thank you! — mark ✎ 11:24, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Is Afar Depression the same place as Denakil/Danakil?

message: There are four article's dealing with the approximate region (Afar Depression, Afar Triple Junction, Lake Asal and Danakil Desert). Distinction should be made between the articles. 
Geologically the Afar Triple Junction is part of the African Rift Valley. It is a tectonical event that has shaped the overlying region discussed in this article. It created two apparent fractures: Lake Asal and the 'Danakil Desert' both below sealevel. Both of these fractures are called 'depressions' in geology as the lie lower than the surrounding terrain. 
This article contains a lot geologic information that belongs in the Triple Junction article but no link to it. It also contains info about the two main fractures/depressions in the area but does not make the distinction noted above. The Danakil Desert article actually contains info about the depression and should be renamed. It also is not more than a stub and can easily be expanded. Furthermore this article is now named 'depression' though technically correct it is confusing with the areas that are below sealevel in this region. The name Afar Triangle is more distinctive and does not insinuate that the article deals mainly with a geological event.
I would like to propose to:
*Move (rename) Afar Depression >to> Afar Triangle
*Move (rename) Danakil Desert >to> Danakil Depression
*Transfer geologic information from Afar Depression >to> Afar Triple Junction
*Shorten geology entry in Afar Depression and add link to Junction article
*Add above distinction to all related articles and add links
*Expand Danakil Desert article
The naming discussion can than be settled for each individual article without the hinderance of different definitions.
Comments on this are most welcome. If we can reach a consensus this would (IMHO) be a good way to proceed.
AlwaysUnite18:24, 27 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Afar Depression / Afar Triangle / Danakil Desert / Danakil Depression

message: I've moved the importance of this article from "Mid" (which was Yom's opinion) to "High" for these reasons:
* Geologic importance of the region (e.g., it is where the African continent can be seen in creation)
* Familiarity (which is higher under its other name "Danakil Depression")
* Balance -- I rated Ethiopian highlands as a "High" in importance. Both are equally important features of Ethiopia's geography.
Comments? -- llywrch 20:15, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Three year later I agree with you. --Dia^ (talk) 16:54, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Even later, so do I. Macdonald-ross (talk) 12:02, 14 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Importance rating 

message: As this article has been deleted and redirects here I have added a couple of lines on this.SmokeyTheCat 09:10, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sea of Afar 

message: I think there should be a section of this page about the climate of the Danakil Depression. It is a very important aspect of it, and I realised while doing a geography paper that there was not even a link to a page which did have information about the climate. The climate is especially important because "depression" is technically, in this case, a term referring to pressure and hence to climate.EthanJosephS (talk) 21:42, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Climate

message: * January 2012 in-print issue, page 116 to 128 National Geographic The Salt and the Earth  97.87.29.188 (talk) 01:37, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  potential resource 

message: I wonder why we capitalise Afar Triangle. Afar Depression, Danakil Depression (etc)  when the second word is merely an adjectival noun? As far as I can see, the first word is an official geographical term, but the second just modifies the first. Macdonald-ross (talk) 12:35, 14 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  capitalisation of titles 

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