Rifting of a Mississippian continental arc system: Little Salmon formation, Yukon–Tanana terrane, northern Canadian Cordillera
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Abstract
The Yukon–Tanana terrane in the northern Canadian Cordillera records the development of a series of mid- to late Paleozoic arc systems, punctuated by intra-arc deformation, uplift, and episodic rifting coeval with back-arc extension, built upon a metasedimentary basement of northwestern Laurentian affinity. In central Yukon, the Little Kalzas formation records the development of one of these Mississippian continental arcs, whereas the Little Salmon formation records the development of an intra-arc rift basin within a continental arc. The Little Salmon formation lower succession comprises mainly volcaniclastic rocks derived from erosion of Early Mississippian and older units, including rocks of the Little Kalzas continental arc. Above a medial limestone member, the upper succession of the Little Salmon formation includes alkali basalt, breccia, and crystal and ash tuffs in the north and predominantly epiclastic rocks interbedded with crystal and ash tuffs in the south. The alkali basalts have the geochemical characteristics of ocean-island basalts and their positive ε Nd 340 (+7.3) and low 87Sr/86Sr values (0.705) suggest a primitive magma source with little or no involvement of continental crust. The transition between the northern and southern facies of the upper succession of the Little Salmon formation coincides with a northeast-trending synvolcanic fault inferred to have controlled alkali basalt eruptions and deposition of Mn-bearing exhalite in the north and basin plain sedimentation in the south. The environment of deposition of the Little Salmon formation resembles that of the modern Sumisu rift in the Izu–Bonin–Mariana arc system or the early stages of development of the Japan island-arc system.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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