Preferred reversal paths caused by a heterogeneous conducting layer at the base of the mantle
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Abstract
Time variations in the geomagnetic field induce secondary electric currents in the mantle, which contribute to the magnetic field at the surface. We explore the possibility that currents in a conducting layer at the base of the mantle disturb the transition field during magnetic reversals and alter the path of the virtual geomagnetic pole (VGP). We calculate the magnitude of the magnetic perturbation during a reversal and quantify the influence of this perturbation on the VGP reversal path. The calculations show that the VGP reversal path depends on the geographic position of the observation site. A histogram of reversal paths obtained using a randomly distributed set of sites reveals a preferred path through the Americas. When the histogram of reversal paths is evaluated with a limited number of sites, based on locations in existing lava and sediment databases, we find that the paths are confined to Asian and American longitudes, which is compatible with reversal path distributions inferred from paleomagnetic records.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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