MétaCan
Menu
Back to cohort
Record W4406299417 · doi:10.5194/gmd-18-71-2025

Checking the consistency of 3D geological models

2025· article· en· W4406299417 on OpenAlexafffund
Marion Parquer, E A de Kemp, Boyan Brodaric, M. J. Hillier

Bibliographic record

VenueGeoscientific model development · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEarth and Planetary Sciences
TopicGeological Modeling and Analysis
Canadian institutionsGeological Survey of CanadaNatural Resources Canada
FundersNatural Resources CanadaGovernment of Canada
KeywordsConsistency (knowledge bases)Computer scienceGeologic mapGeologic hazardsHazardGeologyData miningArtificial intelligenceSeismologyPaleontology

Abstract

fetched live from OpenAlex

Abstract. Three-dimensional geological modelling algorithms can generate multiple models that fit various mathematical and geometrical constraints. The results, however, are often meaningless to geological experts if the models do not respect accepted geological principles. This is problematic as use of the models is expected for various downstream purposes, such as hazard risk assessment, flow characterization, reservoir estimation, geological storage, or mineral and energy exploration. Verification of the geological reasonableness of such models is therefore important. If implausible models can be identified and eliminated, it will save countless hours and computational and human resources. To begin assessing geological reasonableness, we develop a framework for checking model consistency with geological knowledge and test it with a proof-of-concept tool. The framework consists of a space of consistent and inconsistent geological situations that can hold between a pair of geological objects, and the tool assesses a model's geological relations against the space to identify (in)consistent situations. The tool is successfully applied to several case studies as a first promising step toward automated assessment of geological reasonableness.

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 machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.013
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.069
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: Methods
Teacher disagreement score0.013
Threshold uncertainty score0.069

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0130.069
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.003
Bibliometrics0.0030.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.005
Scholarly communication0.0040.006
Open science0.0040.006
Research integrity0.0030.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.001

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.

Opus teacher head0.041
GPT teacher head0.224
Teacher spread0.183 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designSimulation or modeling
Domainnot available
GenreMethods

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".

Quick stats

Citations7
Published2025
Admission routes2
Has abstractyes

Explore more

Same venueGeoscientific model developmentSame topicGeological Modeling and AnalysisFrench-language works237,207