Talk:List of geological features on Titan

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Albedo features should be classified as light "uplands" like Xanadu vs. dark "seas" like Shangri-La, no? kwami 05:48, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

Yes, although the official website doesn't specify which are which. I guess one could look at a map and figure it out, though. The Singing Badger 15:30, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

OK, I had a go using this map (PDF). Seemed relatively straightforward but might need double-checking. The Singing Badger 18:37, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

Latin plural forms of lacus and arcus

Someone had added the statement that the correct Latin plural of lacus is *laci. This probably comes from the naïve assumption that lacus is a second declension noun, merely because it ends in -us, and should therefore form its plural in -i. In fact lacus is a fourth declension noun, and the plural is also formed with -us. The vowel is short in singular and long in plural, leading to the modern spelling of -ūs (with the macron, or bar, over the vowel). In Roman times the macron was not used, nor were lower-case letters or the letter 'U'. If you wanted to be really authentic to the Latin the correct form would be LACVS, but the USGS uses the reasonable correct modern spelling lacūs. Incidentally, the same applies to arcus (plural arcūs) and fluctus (plural fluctūs). This information is common knowledge among students of the Latin language; see for example [1] or Google Latin fourth declension. I have also made this edit on the Lakes of Titan page. Illexsquid (talk) 20:10, 31 May 2010 (UTC)

GEOlogical??

Is geological the correct term..? Geo = Earth Is this the commonly used term? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Shniken1 (talk • contribs) 23:06, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

The term "geology" and its forms are commonly used for discussion of studies of the physical body of solid solar system objects other than the Earth. The term "planetology" as a general term was gaining some currency in the '80s IIRC, but its synonym "planetary geology" now seems to be on the ascendant. The specialized terms "areology" for Mars and "selenology" for the Moon have gained in popularity, but other specialized terms seem to remain obscure. I suppose the reason is that specialists in this type of study will have to have cut their teeth doing actual Earth geology, and many of the tools and topics of research will remain the same no matter on which world you are doing your studies. Illexsquid (talk) 20:10, 31 May 2010 (UTC)

I would propose "suface features, but I am not only late to the gam by ten years, I am also not logged on. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.36.39.157 (talk) 10:42, 24 February 2021 (UTC)

Converting to ccord template

Hello, I'm switching coordinates that are not yet using the coord template to it now. This makes the coordinates clickable and will open the WikiMIniAtlas with an interactive Titan map.

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Best, Dschwen 15:36, 9 August 2012 (UTC)

missing note

In the Notes section, there is an error. This is because there is a reference () that doesn't have any details. I left this because it looks like someone intended to put a qualifying note here, but omitted it. Paul2520 (talk) 15:54, 5 June 2015 (UTC)

Orphaned references in List of geological features on Titan

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of List of geological features on Titan's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "qualifier" in group "note":

• From Lakes of Titan: The USGS web site gives size as a "diameter", but it is actually the length in the longest dimension.
• From Koitere Lacus: The USGS web site gives the size as a "diameter", but it is actually the length in the longest dimension.

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 07:01, 20 June 2015 (UTC)

 Fixed— TAnthony^Talk 14:07, 20 June 2015 (UTC)

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