Canadian west coast fjords and inlets of the NE Pacific Ocean as depositional archives
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract The west coast of Canada is one of the major fjord coastlines of the world, hosting about 150 fjords which are locally known as inlets. Much of the coastline remains remote without extensive research, and this paper summarizes what is known of the Canadian west coast fjord environments. Two fjord regimes are recognized along the British Columbia coastline. Mainland fjords drain high mountains and ice fields with sediment input from snowmelt and glacier runoff in spring and summer. By contrast, the inlets on Vancouver Island are in a milder marine climate, and sediment input occurs mostly during heavy rains of autumn and winter. Due to unique oceanographic conditions and shallow sills at the mouth of some Vancouver Island inlets, anoxic bottom waters exist which allow the preservation of annually laminated sediments. Studies of these annually laminated sediment archives over the past decade, including two international drill ship investigations, have characterized the deglacial, sea-level and palaeoenvironmental history of the British Columbia coastal area. These coastal depositional archives have also advanced our knowledge of the cyclical nature of the NE Pacific ocean and climate system, as well as given evidence of infrequent, yet significant abrupt changes that characterize it.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.007 | 0.015 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.001 |
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.
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".