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Ice-marginal terrestrial landsystems: Sediment heterogeneity, architecture and hydrogeological implications

2025· article· en· W4407095645 on OpenAlex
Emmanuelle Arnaud, Tara M. Harvey, Laura Weaver, John F. Meyer, Beth L. Parker

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Bibliographic record

VenueEarth-Science Reviews · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEarth and Planetary Sciences
TopicGeology and Paleoclimatology Research
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Guelph
FundersOntario Ministry of Economic Development, Job Creation and TradeNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaOntario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs
KeywordsSedimentGeologyArchitectureHydrogeologyHydrology (agriculture)Environmental sciencePhysical geographyGeomorphologyGeographyArchaeologyGeotechnical engineering

Abstract

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Previously glaciated landscapes often present unique challenges for hydrogeological investigations. Specifically, ice-marginal terrestrial landsystems are often difficult to characterize and model considering the dynamic nature of the ice and associated meltwater and sediment gravity flow processes that result in heterogeneous sediment successions and architectures over a range of scales. This paper integrates the many advances in our understanding of glacial geology with a focus on its hydrogeological implications. Ice-marginal terrestrial landsystems can be conceptualized as complex arrangements of glacial conditions that vary as the ice margin stagnates or fluctuates over time. Subglacial, englacial, proglacial, glaciofluvial, glaciolacustrine and gravitational or glacitectonic deformation processes lead to erosional and depositional elements that stack over time to form complex subsurface successions with uncertain lateral variability. The geomorphology and sediments at surface within an area are the last expression of those erosional and depositional elements over time. The nature and architecture of sediment types expected in eight different settings are reviewed and their hydrogeological significance discussed. The evolution of a contaminated site's conceptual model is then used to demonstrate how detailed sedimentological and stratigraphic characterization of glacial successions together with an understanding of ice-marginal landsystems, can lead to a more robust site conceptual model of hydraulic conductivity architecture that can better constrain hydrogeological investigations.

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Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.165
Threshold uncertainty score0.458

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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Opus teacher head0.036
GPT teacher head0.311
Teacher spread0.275 · 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