Unusually fracture-free seafloor in the southern North Atlantic between Newfoundland and Iberia explained through compounding tectonic inheritance since the Paleoproterozoic
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Abstract
Abstract The seafloor between Newfoundland (eastern Canada) and Iberia (southwestern Europe) is unusually devoid of fracture zones compared to other parts of the Atlantic Ocean. Given that oceanic fracture zones commonly spatially correlate with inherited lithospheric weaknesses onshore, their absence may be suggestive of margins with stronger, broader, and more homogeneous inherited lithospheric structures. Herein, the smooth fracture-free seafloor is attributed to the long-lived influence of the massive St. Lawrence promontory, which (1) formed during Paleozoic Iapetan rifting, (2) subsequently controlled the spatial and temporal evolution of Appalachian orogenesis, and (3) ultimately predetermined the geometry of the Grand Banks continental shelf and the location of the Newfoundland-Azores fracture zone during Atlantic rifting and seafloor spreading. Further still, based on the spatial distribution of the adjacent Precambrian cratons and orogenic belts within ancestral Laurentia, the formation of the St. Lawrence promontory itself is attributed herein to inheritance from earlier episodes of Paleoproterozoic orogenesis during the building of Laurentia and during the amalgamation of the Rodinian supercontinent, suggesting that the influence of lithospheric inheritance on subsequent tectonism may persist and be detectable for almost two billion years and through multiple Wilson cycles.
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Teacher imitationNot 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.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 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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