An investigation of factors influencing the erosion of drumlin islands in Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia
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Abstract
The processes that influence the erosion of drowned drumlins in Atlantic Canada are not particularly well understood. Consequently management strategies and engineering practices focused on limiting erosion have had limited success and in some cases have resulted in shoreline modifications that have significant ecological and social impacts. This study focuses on determining the relative importance of the sedimentological, geomorphological and physical parameters that contribute to headward erosion of seven drowned drumlin islands in Mahone Bay, Southwestern Nova Scotia. The islands being studied are palimpsest drumlins formed during the Wisconsinan glaciation from 30 ky to 17 ky BP. Post-glacial sea level rise and gradual subsidence associated with foreland bulge migration has exposed these islands to marine influence (drowned drumlins). A 60 year long historical air photo survey established long term erosion rates of up to .46 m/yr and determined the orientation of eroding surfaces, transportation corridors and subsequent deposits. A suite of marine physical parameters (bathymetry, fetch, swell) were studied to determine energy transfer processes. Site investigation involved documenting the sedimentology and stratigraphy of eroding surfaces as well as hydrological conditions (water table elevation, permeability) that might contribute to headland instability. The results of this study indicate that erosion rates are the result of a combination of complex interacting factors. Fine grained lodgement tills are more prone to mass wasting as a consequence of wave notching than coarse grained ablation tills that contain a greater abundance of cobble to boulder clasts. Multiple tills and layering within tills also produces hydrological anisotropy and contributes to the activation of glide planes along which mass wasting occurs. Hydrogeologically triggered rotational and translational failure occurs in response to oversteepening. The consequent exposure of underconsolidated sediment to wave activity expedites erosion. Most rapidly eroding headlands are exposed to both maximum storm fetch and ocean swells. Wave energy input can be considered as the limiting factor when determining the locations of highest rates of erosion.
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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
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| 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) | 0.000 | 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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