Giant Porphyry Copper Deposits Caused by a Slab Jamming in the Mantle Transition Zone
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Abstract
ABSTRACT Two giant porphyry copper deposits in the Southern Central Andes formed during the Miocene–Pliocene transition when a bend in the subducting Juan de Fernández hotspot chain jammed in the mantle transition zone, causing mega‐scale slab‐kinking. This geometry implies mechanical resistance that caused East–West compression and eventually a thrust‐mode failure in a now flattened slab segment at depth. The geometric incompatibility of the kinking zone, compared to the subducting slab adjacent, caused transverse, down‐dip slab tears parallel to (but not coincident with) the Juan de Fernández Ridge. One torn flat slab segment acted as a trapdoor, which opened, gaped, and then detached. The largest copper deposits formed along the prolongation of the trapdoor tear, where it intersected tears at the southern edge of the flat slab kink segment. Fluid rising from the sinking slablet beneath escaped for only a limited period before the slab gape was over‐ridden by ongoing subduction.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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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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