Interaction of Laurentide and Cordilleran ice in the Beaver Mines area, southwestern Alberta
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Surficial geology mapping of the Beaver Mines area, distribution of Canadian Shield erratics, stratigraphy of Quaternary sediments exposed along the Castle River valley and its tributaries and correlation with southwestern Alberta geochronology, indicate that Cordilleran and Laurentide ice were in contact in the lower Castle River valley during the Late Wisconsinan Substage. During this time two Cordilleran glacial advances are recognised in the lower reaches of the valley, its tributaries and the western Interior Plains: 1) an earlier advance (M1), during which ice thickness averaged between 320 - 350 m thick in the Beaver Mines area, and 2) a later readvance (M2). A single Laurentide advance (C2) into the Beaver Mines area was contemporaneous with retreat of Cordilleran ice from the M2 maximum position, resulting in coalescence of the two ice masses. This followed a C1 advance that is recognised outside the area. During montane advances, glaciers were topographically-controlled and efficiently eroded their substrates. Deglaciation was characterised by ice retreat, stagnation of detached ice masses, and damming of glacial lakes by retreating Laurentide ice.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 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) | 0.001 | 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.
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".