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Record W4414374785 · doi:10.4138/atlgeo.2025.013

Revisions to geological unit names in New Brunswick, Canada, to address culturally offensive or inappropriate nomenclature

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Dustin R.L. Dahn, Erin A. Smith, Philippe Pagé

Bibliographic record

VenueAtlantic Geoscience · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEarth and Planetary Sciences
TopicGeological Studies and Exploration
Canadian institutionsMinistère des Ressources naturelles et des Forêts (Québec)Ministère des Ressources naturelles et des ForêtsUniversity of New Brunswick
Fundersnot available
KeywordsOffensiveNomenclatureUnit (ring theory)Identification (biology)Toponymy

Abstract

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Recent amendments to the North American Stratigraphic Code enable the renaming of offensive or inappropriate unit names. Although the Province of New Brunswick has commenced the identification and renaming of culturally inappropriate geographic features, the use of offensive toponyms presents a problem in the naming of geological units. Names of eight geological units and structures in New Brunswick are culturally inappropriate or offensive. Following the guidelines in the amended Stratigraphic Code, replacement names for these problematic units and structures are proposed herein.

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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)0.005
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.028
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.084
Threshold uncertainty score0.608

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0050.028
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0080.019
Science and technology studies0.0090.004
Scholarly communication0.0060.002
Open science0.0050.001
Research integrity0.0010.005
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0140.006

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 head0.025
GPT teacher head0.243
Teacher spread0.218 · 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 designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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