Abstract: Denudation of the Appalachians in the Cretaceous: tracking fluvial dispersion with mineral geochronology and chemistry
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In the Early Cretaceous of the passive margin Scotian Basin, more than 45 million years after the onset of sea-floor spreading, sandy deltas prograded tens of kilometres seawards. Sand supply was 3–4 times higher than in the early history of the passive margin. Multiple sedimentary petrology methods show that the dominant source of the sand was from the local Appalachians, supplied by at least three different rivers. Geochronology of detrital muscovite, monazite, and zircon provides a first-order assessment of the source of detrital sediment. Almost all detrital muscovite grains are Late Paleozoic in age. Mass-balance calculations require a few hundreds of metres of exhumation of the inner continental shelf during the Early Cretaceous. The paucity of older ages results from abrasion during transport from more inboard Appalachian terranes. Most detrital monazite grains are Devonian, but Lower Paleozoic, latest Neoproterozoic, Mesoproterozoic, and Paleoproterozoic grains each make up about 10% of the total assemblage. Although monazite survives mechanical abrasion, it is readily broken down chemically under acid conditions. There is no systematic variation of monazite morphology with age, except that euhedral grains are over-represented in middle Paleozoic ages, characteristic of the outboard Appalachians, and involving short transport distances. This variation indicates that most monazite is of first cycle origin. Most detrital zircon grains are of Precambrian age, with peaks at 1.0 Ga and 1.7 Ga that are characteristic of reworked zircons in inboard Appalachian rocks of Laurentian prove-
Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.
How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| 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 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| 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 teacher head, 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".