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as a metamorphic rock kind and the observations needed to assess specimens, exposures and material lots, distinguishing observed fabric from inferred geological history.", "in_scope": [ "Identification of gneiss through mineral composition, mineral segregation and metamorphic fabric", "Mineral assemblages, grain sizes and spatial variation within the rock", "Gneissic banding, foliation, lineation and their geometric relationships", "Evidence for precursor rock, metamorphism, deformation and partial melting", "Weathering, discontinuities and direction-dependent suitability for material use" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Individual mineral species and their complete mineralogical models", "Regional tectonic systems and the complete histories of geological terranes", "Schist, granite, migmatite and other neighbouring rock kinds as independent models", "Quarry operations, extraction machinery and supply-chain management", "Finished stone products, building designs and structural certification" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Check whether distinguishable mineral domains form a gneissic fabric; colour stripes alone do not establish that the rock is gneiss.", "Distinguish gneissic mineral segregation from schistosity dominated by closely aligned platy minerals, recording borderline textures rather than forcing a classification.", "For a granite-like specimen, check whether its planar or banded fabric reflects metamorphic reworking rather than treating mineral composition alone as decisive.", "Where light and dark domains suggest migmatite, seek evidence for partial melting; banding alone does not establish melt formation.", "Check whether apparent layers represent metamorphic differentiation, inherited compositional layering or another structure, and retain uncertainty about their origin." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Identification and confidence", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "gneiss; probable gneiss; transitional rock; unresolved, with supporting observations", "why_it_matters": "Separates a supported identification from a field label awaiting examination." }, { "name": "Mineral assemblage and proportions", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "identified minerals and estimated or measured volume %, with method and uncertainty", "why_it_matters": "Describes composition without assuming that all gneisses have one mineral recipe." }, { "name": "Grain-size distribution", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "mm, recorded separately for relevant minerals and bands", "why_it_matters": "Supports textural description and comparison between differently composed domains." }, { "name": "Band geometry", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "band thickness and spacing in mm or cm; continuity length in cm or m; observation scale", "why_it_matters": "Makes gneissic segregation assessable beyond an unqualified description of banding." }, { "name": "Fabric orientation", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "foliation strike/dip and lineation trend/plunge in degrees, with reference convention", "why_it_matters": "Connects specimen observations to exposure geometry and directional testing." }, { "name": "Protolith interpretation", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "igneous-derived orthogneiss; sediment-derived paragneiss; other or mixed interpretation; unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Records precursor interpretations separately from directly observed texture." }, { "name": "Geological provenance", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "links to sampling location, exposure, mapped unit and collection record", "why_it_matters": "Preserves the context needed to evaluate representativeness and geological interpretation." }, { "name": "Weathering and alteration condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "described mineral alteration, staining, friability and surface-to-interior variation, with assessment method", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes original rock fabric from subsequent deterioration." }, { "name": "Discontinuity geometry", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "fracture spacing in mm or m, aperture in mm, orientation in degrees and observed persistence in m", "why_it_matters": "Supports assessment of block integrity and separates fractures from mineral bands." }, { "name": "Directional material performance", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "strength in MPa, water absorption in %, and other application-specific results, with test method and orientation to fabric", "why_it_matters": "Prevents a rock name or an unoriented test result from substituting for demonstrated suitability." } ], "affordances": [ "Classify a specimen provisionally and identify observations needed to resolve confusion with neighbouring rock kinds.", "Describe and compare mineral bands, grains and structural fabrics across specimens or an exposure.", "Select oriented samples that represent contrasting bands, weathering conditions and fracture patterns.", "Build an evidence-qualified interpretation of precursor rock and metamorphic history.", "Assess whether material testing supports a proposed use and identify missing directional or durability evidence." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "gneiss-identification", "name": "Gneiss identification", "description": "Establish whether the observed rock supports a gneiss identification and define the limits of that identification.", "rationale": "Gneiss must be recognised through its rock fabric and context rather than through colour or a commercial label alone.", "layers": [ { "id": "diagnostic-fabric", "name": "Diagnostic fabric", "description": "Examine the mineral organisation underlying the proposed rock name.", "findings": [ { "id": "gneissic-fabric-evidence", "name": "Evidence for gneissic fabric", "description": "Record the observed mineral segregation and preferred orientation that support or weaken identification as gneiss.", "questions": [ { "text": "What mineral domains and preferred orientations support the gneiss identification?", "kind": "definition", "id": "gneissic-fabric-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "At what observation scale is the fabric visible, and does it persist across differently oriented surfaces?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "gneissic-fabric-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "neighbouring-rock-boundaries", "name": "Neighbouring rock boundaries", "description": "Resolve ambiguous relationships with schist, granite, migmatite and other banded rocks.", "findings": [ { "id": "alternative-identifications", "name": "Alternative identifications", "description": "Keep competing classifications explicit and identify the evidence that would distinguish them.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which observations favour gneiss over schist, weakly deformed granite or a rock with inherited layering?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "alternative-identifications-q01" }, { "text": "If migmatitic features are suspected, what evidence beyond light-dark banding supports partial melting?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "alternative-identifications-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "mineral-and-band-architecture", "name": "Mineral and band architecture", "description": "Describe what the rock contains and how its constituents vary between bands and grains.", "rationale": "Composition and its spatial distribution distinguish individual gneisses and influence interpretation and material behaviour.", "layers": [ { "id": "mineral-assemblage", "name": "Mineral assemblage", "description": "Identify minerals and quantify their distribution without assuming a fixed gneiss composition.", "findings": [ { "id": "domain-specific-composition", "name": "Domain-specific composition", "description": "Record mineral identities, proportions and identification confidence separately for contrasting domains.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which minerals occur in each contrasting band, and which identifications require thin-section or analytical confirmation?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "domain-specific-composition-q01" }, { "text": "Do reported mineral proportions describe one band, one specimen or a representative composite of the rock?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "domain-specific-composition-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "grain-and-band-texture", "name": "Grain and band texture", "description": "Characterise grain sizes, segregated domains and conspicuous larger grains.", "findings": [ { "id": "textural-heterogeneity", "name": "Textural heterogeneity", "description": "Describe variation in grain size, band dimensions and any eye-shaped grains or aggregates without assigning their origin prematurely.", "questions": [ { "text": "What are the grain-size ranges and band thicknesses in the principal mineral domains?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "textural-heterogeneity-q01" }, { "text": "Are eye-shaped grains or aggregates present, and how does the surrounding fabric relate to them?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "textural-heterogeneity-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "fabric-and-deformation", "name": "Fabric and deformation", "description": "Record the geometry and overprinting relationships of banding, foliation, lineation and folds.", "rationale": "A gneiss specimen can preserve several structures whose orientations and sequence cannot be represented by a single banding label.", "layers": [ { "id": "oriented-structures", "name": "Oriented structures", "description": "Measure distinct planar and linear features in a shared reference frame.", "findings": [ { "id": "fabric-geometry", "name": "Fabric geometry", "description": "Keep compositional banding, mineral foliation and lineation distinct where observations permit.", "questions": [ { "text": "What are the measured orientations of compositional banding, foliation and lineation?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "fabric-geometry-q01" }, { "text": "Are these structures parallel, oblique or locally variable, and how was specimen orientation preserved?", "kind": "provenance", "id": 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"rationale": "The name gneiss does not by itself settle precursor identity, metamorphic conditions, age or whether melting occurred.", "layers": [ { "id": "precursor-and-context", "name": "Precursor and context", "description": "Evaluate precursor interpretations using specimen evidence and geological setting.", "findings": [ { "id": "protolith-attribution", "name": "Protolith attribution", "description": "Record the basis for orthogneiss, paragneiss or unresolved precursor attribution.", "questions": [ { "text": "What field relationships, mineralogical observations or analytical results support the proposed precursor?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "protolith-attribution-q01" }, { "text": "Does that interpretation apply to this sampled domain or only to the broader mapped geological unit?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "protolith-attribution-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "metamorphic-history", "name": "Metamorphic history", "description": "Assess mineral reactions, melting evidence and dated 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Appearance varies with grade, form and additives; identification is by label, by documentation, or by assay." ], "relatedModels": [ { "relation": "covers", "note": "Finer kinds folded into this entry because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it. Each is a model waiting to be split out when one does.", "targets": [ "Cresciano gneiss", "serizzo", "Ticino granite", "Maggia gneiss", "coastal gneiss", "composite gneiss", "Onsernone gneiss", "Śnieżnik gneiss", "mica gneiss", "augen gneiss", "Beola", "veined gneiss" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 73 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 22 finer distinctions are held inside this entry as names rather than as separate models.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one gneiss from another, and a gneiss from things that resemble it.", "rationale": "Recognition comes before every other claim. 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"knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a gneiss is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers", "name": "Stable identifiers and external keys", "description": "Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.", "questions": [ { "id": "stable-identifiers-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an identifier for a gneiss, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a gneiss, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a gneiss is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification-and-granularity", "name": "Classification and granularity", "description": "Where a gneiss sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.", "findings": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents", "name": "Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds", "description": "The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.", "questions": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the kind of a gneiss, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the kind of a gneiss, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a gneiss is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features", "name": "Distinguishing features", "description": "What separates a gneiss from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a gneiss, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a gneiss, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a gneiss is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "form-and-composition", "name": "Form, composition and condition", "description": "What a gneiss is made of, what shape and size it takes, and what state it is in.", "rationale": "A physical thing can be measured, and a model that cannot record its measurements cannot support any decision that depends on them.", "layers": [ { "id": "form-and-dimensions", "name": "Form and dimensions", "description": "Shape, size, mass and the ranges these take across examples.", "findings": [ { "id": "measurable-dimensions", "name": "Measurable dimensions and their units", "description": "The quantities worth recording and the units they are recorded in.", "questions": [ { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the dimensions of a gneiss, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the dimensions of a gneiss, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the dimensions of a gneiss is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "material-and-composition", "name": "Material and composition", "description": "Materials, parts and how they are put together.", "findings": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials", "name": "Parts and materials", "description": "What a gneiss is built from and which parts are replaceable.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a gneiss, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "parts-and-materials-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the composition of a gneiss, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "parts-and-materials-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the composition of a gneiss is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-integrity", "name": "Condition and integrity", "description": "Wear, damage, health and the difference between working and broken.", "findings": [ { "id": "condition-assessment", "name": "Condition, damage and health", "description": "How the condition of a gneiss is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a gneiss, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the condition of a gneiss, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the condition of a gneiss is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "place-and-movement", "name": "Place and movement", "description": "Where a gneiss is, how it got there and where it may go (varies).", "rationale": "A thing that can move needs its position recorded with a time, or every later claim about it is about a place it has left.", "layers": [ { "id": "location-and-placement", "name": "Location and placement", "description": "Position, containment and the reference frame the position is given in.", "findings": [ { "id": "position-and-frame", "name": "Position, container and reference frame", "description": "Where a gneiss is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a gneiss, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the location of a gneiss, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the location of a gneiss is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "movement-and-transfer", "name": "Movement and transfer", "description": "How a gneiss is carried, installed or relocated.", "findings": [ { "id": "movement-events", "name": "Movement events and constraints", "description": "What counts as a movement, what records it and what limits it.", "questions": [ { "id": "movement-events-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the movement of a gneiss, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the movement of a gneiss, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the movement of a gneiss is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "state-and-lifecycle", "name": "State and lifecycle", "description": "The states a gneiss passes through and the events that move it between them.", "rationale": "Most decisions about a thing depend on what state it is in now, which is a claim with a time on it, not a property.", "layers": [ { "id": "lifecycle-stages", "name": "Lifecycle stages", "description": "From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.", "findings": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions", "name": "Stages and transitions", "description": "The stages worth naming and what moves a gneiss between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a gneiss, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a gneiss, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a gneiss is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "observations-and-status", "name": "Observations and current status", "description": "What is observed about a gneiss, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a gneiss is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.", "questions": [ { "id": "observation-record-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a gneiss, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a gneiss, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a gneiss is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "use-and-operation", "name": "Use and operation", "description": "What can be done with a gneiss and what it takes to do it.", "rationale": "An agent that can recognise a thing but not act on it has only half a model.", "layers": [ { "id": "intended-use", "name": "Intended use and function", "description": "What a gneiss is for, and what it is used for anyway.", "findings": [ { "id": "function-and-purpose", "name": "Function, purpose and misuse", "description": "The function a gneiss performs and the uses that fall outside it.", "questions": [ { "id": "function-and-purpose-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the use of a gneiss, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "function-and-purpose-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the use of a gneiss, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "function-and-purpose-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the use of a gneiss is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "handling-and-procedure", "name": "Handling and procedure", "description": "The steps, skills and tools involved in using a gneiss.", "findings": [ { "id": "procedures-and-skills", "name": "Procedures, skills and required tools", "description": "What an agent needs before it can act on a gneiss at all.", "questions": [ { "id": "procedures-and-skills-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes handling a gneiss, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "procedures-and-skills-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about handling a gneiss, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "procedures-and-skills-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once handling a gneiss is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "supply-and-consumption", "name": "Supply and consumption", "description": "Quantities, rates and what running out means.", "findings": [ { "id": "consumption-and-stock", "name": "Consumption, stock and replenishment", "description": "How much of a gneiss there is and how fast it goes.", "questions": [ { "id": "consumption-and-stock-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the supply of a gneiss, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "consumption-and-stock-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the supply of a gneiss, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "consumption-and-stock-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the supply of a gneiss is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "composition-and-identity", "name": "Composition, grade and chemical identity", "description": "What gneiss is made of and how pure the thing in hand is.", "rationale": "Grade decides what a substance may be used for, so a model that records only the name cannot support any decision about use.", "layers": [ { "id": "chemical-identity", "name": "Chemical identity", "description": "Formula, structure and the registry numbers that name it unambiguously.", "findings": [ { "id": "identity-record", "name": "Identity and registry numbers", "description": "What identifies this substance across suppliers and regulators.", "questions": [ { "id": "identity-record-q01", "text": "What formula, structure and registry identifiers name gneiss unambiguously?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "identity-record-q02", "text": "Which related substances share a name in common use but not an identifier?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "grade-and-impurities", "name": "Grade, purity and impurities", "description": "The specification a batch meets and what else is in it.", "findings": [ { "id": "specification", "name": "Specification and assay", "description": "How purity is stated and measured, and which impurities matter.", "questions": [ { "id": "specification-q01", "text": "What grades of gneiss exist, how is purity assayed, and which impurities are limited?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "specification-q02", "text": "Which use requires which grade, and what happens when a lower grade is substituted?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "properties-and-behaviour", "name": "Properties and behaviour", "description": "How gneiss behaves under conditions an agent can measure or change.", "rationale": "Physical constants are the part of a substance model that transfers between contexts, and each needs its unit and its conditions.", "layers": [ { "id": "physical-constants", "name": "Physical constants", "description": "Values that hold for the pure substance, with their conditions.", "findings": [ { "id": "constants-record", "name": "Constants and conditions", "description": "The quantities worth recording and the state they apply in.", "questions": [ { "id": "constants-record-q01", "text": "What are the defining physical constants of gneiss, in what units and under what conditions?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "constants-record-q02", "text": "Which of these values change with grade or form rather than being fixed?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "stability-and-reactivity", "name": "Stability and reactivity", "description": "What it reacts with, degrades into, and how it is stored.", "findings": [ { "id": "incompatibilities", "name": "Incompatibilities and degradation", "description": "What must not meet it, and what it becomes over time.", "questions": [ { "id": "incompatibilities-q01", "text": "What is gneiss incompatible with, and what does it degrade into under storage?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "incompatibilities-q02", "text": "What storage and handling does that require, and who is competent to do it?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "hazard-and-regulation", "name": "Hazard classification and regulation", "description": "How gneiss can harm, and what the law says about holding and moving it.", "rationale": "A substance model without its hazard class and its regulatory identity is unusable in exactly the situations that matter.", "layers": [ { "id": "hazard-class", "name": "Hazard classification", "description": "Classified hazards, exposure limits and protective measures.", "findings": [ { "id": "classified-hazards", "name": "Classified hazards and limits", "description": "The classification, the scheme it belongs to, and the limits set.", "questions": [ { "id": "classified-hazards-q01", "text": "How is gneiss classified for hazard, under which scheme, and what exposure limits apply?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "classified-hazards-q02", "text": "What protection does handling require, and what must an agent refuse to do without it?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "regulatory-identity", "name": "Regulatory identity and control", "description": "Registration, restriction and transport rules by jurisdiction.", "findings": [ { "id": "controls", "name": "Controls and jurisdiction", "description": "Where it is restricted and what the restriction attaches to.", "questions": [ { "id": "controls-q01", "text": "Which registrations, restrictions or transport rules cover gneiss, and where?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "controls-q02", "text": "Does the control attach to the substance, its concentration, or its intended use?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a gneiss came from and when it held.", "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.", "layers": [ { "id": "source-and-authority", "name": "Source and authority", "description": "Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.", "findings": [ { "id": "claim-provenance", "name": "Claim provenance and confidence", "description": "The authority behind each claim about a gneiss and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a gneiss, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a claim about a gneiss, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a gneiss is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "time-and-versions", "name": "Time, versions and supersession", "description": "When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.", "findings": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession", "name": "Validity period and supersession", "description": "How an old claim about a gneiss is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a gneiss, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a gneiss, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a gneiss is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 9, "layers": 20, "findings": 22, "questions": 60 } } } }