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Record W1970670734 · doi:10.1029/2008eo460001

Jan Hosper's Key Contributions to Geomagnetism

2008· article· en· W1970670734 on OpenAlexaff
Ted Irving

Bibliographic record

VenueEos · 2008
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicGeomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies
Canadian institutionsGeological Survey of Canada
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPaleomagnetismEarth's magnetic fieldPolarity (international relations)GeologyApparent polar wanderContinental driftGeophysicsGeomagnetic reversalGeodesyPaleontologyPhysicsMagnetic field

Abstract

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Although Bernard Brunhes in 1904 presented the first evidence that the geomagnetic field had once reversed in polarity [Laj et al., 2002], modern studies of reversals only began in the late 1940s with the work of Jan Hospers and Alexandre Roche [Opdyke and Channel, 1996]. Hospers also initiated modern studies of the time‐averaged form of the geomagnetic field [Frankel, 1987]. His empirically based notion—that over several thousand years the geomagnetic field averaged to a geocentric axial dipole (GAD) that, as he and others showed, had recurrently reversed its polarity—allowed Creer et al. [1954] to trace the movement of the geographic pole (apparent polar wander path) relative to Britain and by geological extension, to Europe as well. This was the first such path based on paleomagnetic evidence, and it led in turn to the first successful physical test of continental drift [Irving, 1988].

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Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.004
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.014
Threshold uncertainty score0.047

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.004
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.001
Science and technology studies0.0020.003
Scholarly communication0.0030.003
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0030.007
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0140.007

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.007
GPT teacher head0.238
Teacher spread0.231 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2008
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