Yukon-Tanana Terrane in the Scotia-Quaal Belt, Coast Plutonic Complex, central-western British Columbia
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Abstract
The Scotia-Quaal belt of amphibolite facies metamorphic rocks is in the core of the Coast Plutonic Complex southeast of Prince Rupert, inboard of the Alexander terrane and outboard of the westernmost documented extension of the Stikine terrane. Correlation of the Scotia-Quaal assemblage with continental margin strata of the Yukon-Tanana terrane is based primarily on lithologic grounds, including the presence of abundant quartz-rich sedimentary rocks and Middle Devonian orthogneiss associated with metavolcanic rocks hosting massive sulfide deposits. Evolved Nd and Sr isotopic signatures in the Scotia-Quaal belt also support the correlation. Dissimilarities in age, lithology, and isotopic signatures differentiate the Scotia-Quaal units from those of the Wrangellia, Alexander, and Taku terranes. The Scotia-Quaal belt shows some similarities with the Stikine terrane, mainly the presence of Devonian igneous rocks, suggesting that part of the Scotia-Quaal belt is correlative with the Stikine terrane. However, the isotopic and lithological differences make it unlikely that all of the Scotia-Quaal rocks should be included in the Stikine terrane. The Scotia-Quaal belt is part of a discontinuous belt of Proterozoic to lower Paleozoic continental margin strata overlain and intruded by middle to upper Paleozoic arc-type rocks; the belt extends longitudinally through the Coast Plutonic Complex from the Yukon Territory to at least as far south as lat 52°N. If the Scotia-Quaal belt contains some Stikine terrane rocks, then accretion of continental margin rocks to Stikine terrane occurred prior to Early Jurassic time. The possible presence of Stikine strata in the Scotia-Quaal belt or of continental-margin assemblages in the Central Gneiss Complex also suggests that the Work Channel structural zone may not mark the boundary between the Insular superterrane and the Stikine terrane. Even if the Stikine terrane strata are absent from the Scotia-Quaal area, the presence of Early Jurassic plutons hints at an Early Jurassic or older link between the Scotia-Quaal and the Yukon-Tanana assemblage and the Stikine terrane.
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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) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.055 | 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".