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7 domain-specific abstractions whose origin domain is Earth Science.

• Climate Ensemble — A declared collection of comparable climate-model realizations whose controlled differences in initial conditions, parameters, model structures, or forcing scenarios are analyzed together to characterize modeled variability and uncertainty.
• Extinct Radionuclide — Infer a short-lived radionuclide once present in an early planetary reservoir even though its primordial parent has decayed below detection, using daughter-isotope excesses and a declared closure chronology.
• Groundwater Model — Represent an aquifer system through a purpose-bounded conceptual and mathematical model that maps hydrostratigraphy, stresses, boundary conditions, flow and transport equations, calibration evidence, and uncertainty into qualified groundwater predictions.
• Ice Dune — A seasonal shore-parallel accumulation of frozen swash, spray, slush, and ice fragments that builds an ice-foot or ridge complex at a freezing beach–water interface.
• River Channel Migration — The progressive relocation of an active alluvial river channel across its floodplain as spatially unequal bank erosion and bar or bank accretion move its planform while flow, sediment, bank strength, and vegetation continually feed back on the new geometry.
• Sequence stratigraphy — A chronostratigraphic framework that subdivides and correlates sedimentary successions into genetically related, surface-bounded packages interpreted through accommodation, sediment supply, stacking, and relative shoreline change.
• Transport Convergence Zone — A localized front or region where opposing or spatially converging transport velocities reduce net export and concentrate carried matter, so the zone persists or migrates with the field that creates the convergence.