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  "vercy": "1.0-draft",
  "publication": {
    "status": "research-draft",
    "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed",
    "publishableCanonical": false,
    "generatedAt": "2026-09-11T10:36:56Z",
    "providers": [
      "Claude"
    ],
    "breadth": "written by Claude from model knowledge without web access - no source was read, every claim is a lead to verify",
    "pass": 2,
    "wave": 1,
    "engine": "claude",
    "enrichment": {
      "pass": 3,
      "engine": "claude",
      "producedAt": "2026-10-05T16:30:00Z",
      "ingestedAt": "2026-10-05T13:27:17+00:00",
      "fields": [
        "agent_conduct",
        "ethics",
        "owners"
      ]
    },
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      "version": "1.0",
      "at": "2026-10-07T12:16:27+00:00",
      "evidence": [
        "completeness 1.00",
        "sense: WordNet gloss",
        "2 live sources",
        "review by codex: pass"
      ]
    }
  },
  "metaModel": {
    "id": "THING-DEPOSIT",
    "registryId": "vr.tr.deposit",
    "name": "deposit",
    "version": "0.2.0-wave.1",
    "entryKind": "thing",
    "family": "Thing Registry",
    "domain": [
      "PHY.FLW"
    ],
    "status": "research-draft"
  },
  "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/deposit/",
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    "registry_id": "vr.tr.deposit",
    "name": "deposit",
    "purpose": "Let an agent handle geological deposits by process, type, location and uses, and separate financial deposit senses.",
    "definition": "The accumulation of sediment, gravel or minerals by natural processes such as rivers, wind, glaciers or hydrothermal activity (sedimentation, alluviation), and the resulting body, including ore deposits such as lodes.",
    "what_it_is_for": "Geology, resources, landscapes and hazard understanding.",
    "affordances": [
      "identify depositional processes",
      "describe types of deposits",
      "find geological survey information",
      "separate financial senses"
    ],
    "distinguishing_features": [
      "Accumulation of material",
      "Many agents of deposition",
      "Forms landforms and resources",
      "Records environmental history"
    ],
    "appearance": "Layers of sand, silt, gravel or mineral veins.",
    "visual_identification": [
      "Sediment layers and alluvial fans",
      "Mineral lodes and veins",
      "Bank deposits are a different sense"
    ],
    "physical_properties": [
      {
        "quantity": "Deposit thickness",
        "unit": "metres",
        "typical_range": "",
        "note": "Thickness is measured between deposit boundaries using exposures, boreholes or interpreted geophysical observations."
      },
      {
        "quantity": "Particle diameter",
        "unit": "millimetres",
        "typical_range": "",
        "note": "Particle size in unconsolidated deposits is measured by sieving, imaging or sedimentation analysis and reported as a distribution."
      },
      {
        "quantity": "Bulk density",
        "unit": "kilograms per cubic metre",
        "typical_range": "",
        "note": "Bulk density is measured as sample mass divided by total sample volume with moisture condition stated."
      },
      {
        "quantity": "Porosity",
        "unit": "percent",
        "typical_range": "",
        "note": "Porosity is measured as the fraction of total deposit volume occupied by voids using a method appropriate to the material."
      },
      {
        "quantity": "Mineral mass fraction",
        "unit": "percent",
        "typical_range": "",
        "note": "Representative samples are analyzed to determine the mass fraction of a specified mineral with sampling and analytical methods recorded."
      }
    ],
    "families_and_kinds": [
      "alluvial deposits",
      "glacial deposits",
      "aeolian deposits",
      "marine sediments",
      "ore deposits and lodes"
    ],
    "related_models": [
      {
        "relation": "is a kind of",
        "target": "geological process and result",
        "why": "category"
      },
      {
        "relation": "is contrasted with",
        "target": "erosion",
        "why": "opposite"
      },
      {
        "relation": "forms",
        "target": "sedimentary rock",
        "why": "result"
      },
      {
        "relation": "is confused with",
        "target": "deposit (bank)",
        "why": "another sense"
      }
    ],
    "identifiers": [],
    "standards_and_regulation": [
      "Mineral resource reporting codes such as JORC",
      "Mining and planning law"
    ],
    "failure_modes_and_hazards": [
      "Overstating mineral resources",
      "Sediment-related flooding",
      "Confusing senses"
    ],
    "in_scope": [],
    "out_of_scope": [],
    "characteristics": [],
    "agent_conduct": {
      "may": [
        "Describe sediment and ore deposits from geological surveys, citing them.",
        "Report resource estimates only with the reporting code and confidence they were made under."
      ],
      "must_not": [
        "Overstate the size or grade of a mineral deposit to attract investment.",
        "Help extract minerals without the permits and landowner or community consent required.",
        "Remove material from protected geological sites.",
        "Confuse a geological deposit with a bank deposit or other sense of the word."
      ],
      "requires_human": [
        "Publishing resource estimates or advising on extraction."
      ]
    },
    "ethics": {
      "considerations": [
        "Mineral deposits draw extraction that can displace communities and damage water and land.",
        "False resource claims have defrauded investors."
      ],
      "affected_parties": [
        "Local and Indigenous communities",
        "Investors",
        "Ecosystems near extraction"
      ]
    },
    "owners": {
      "steward": "The mineral rights holder or the state, depending on jurisdiction; geological surveys keep the records.",
      "master_systems": [
        "National geological survey databases",
        "Mineral rights and mining cadastres"
      ]
    }
  },
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "oewn",
      "title": "Open English WordNet 2024, synset oewn-11465491-n",
      "url": "https://en-word.net/id/oewn-11465491-n",
      "what_it_supports": "sense and gloss of the concept",
      "url_status": "live",
      "checked_by": "http 200"
    },
    {
      "id": "wiktionary-en",
      "title": "Wiktionary: deposit",
      "url": "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/deposit",
      "what_it_supports": "word senses and usage",
      "url_status": "live",
      "checked_by": "http 200"
    }
  ],
  "structure": {
    "bundles": [
      {
        "id": "process",
        "name": "Process",
        "description": "How it forms.",
        "rationale": "Processes differ.",
        "layers": [
          {
            "id": "agent",
            "name": "Agent",
            "description": "River, wind, ice.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "agent-finding",
                "name": "Agent",
                "description": "Depositional agent.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "Which agent deposited this material?",
                    "kind": "definition"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "What evidence shows it?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "id": "rate",
            "name": "Rate",
            "description": "Sedimentation rate.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "rate-finding",
                "name": "Rate",
                "description": "Rate.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "How fast does deposition occur here?",
                    "kind": "measurement"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "How was it measured?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "type",
        "name": "Type",
        "description": "Kinds.",
        "rationale": "Types have features.",
        "layers": [
          {
            "id": "kind",
            "name": "Kind",
            "description": "Classification.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "kind-finding",
                "name": "Kind",
                "description": "Deposit type.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "What type of deposit is it?",
                    "kind": "definition"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "What does the geological map show?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "id": "age",
            "name": "Age",
            "description": "Dating.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "age-finding",
                "name": "Age",
                "description": "Age.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "How old is the deposit?",
                    "kind": "measurement"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Which dating method was used?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "resources",
        "name": "Resources",
        "description": "Ore and aggregates.",
        "rationale": "Resource claims need codes.",
        "layers": [
          {
            "id": "ore",
            "name": "Ore",
            "description": "Mineral deposits.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "ore-finding",
                "name": "Ore",
                "description": "Ore deposits.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "Is the mineral resource reported under a recognised code?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Is it a resource or a reserve?",
                    "kind": "boundary"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "id": "extraction",
            "name": "Extraction",
            "description": "Impacts.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "extraction-finding",
                "name": "Extraction",
                "description": "Extraction impacts.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "What permits and environmental assessments apply?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "What are the impacts?",
                    "kind": "boundary"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "senses",
        "name": "Senses",
        "description": "Disambiguation.",
        "rationale": "Deposit has other senses.",
        "layers": [
          {
            "id": "bank",
            "name": "Bank",
            "description": "Money deposit.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "bank-finding",
                "name": "Bank",
                "description": "Financial sense.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "Is a bank deposit or security deposit meant?",
                    "kind": "boundary"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Which entry fits?",
                    "kind": "action"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "id": "medical",
            "name": "Medical",
            "description": "Tissue deposits.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "medical-finding",
                "name": "Medical",
                "description": "Medical sense.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "Is a deposit in body tissue meant?",
                    "kind": "boundary"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Which entry fits?",
                    "kind": "action"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "openQuestions": [
    "Should deposit types be separate entries?",
    "How should geological maps be linked?",
    "How should financial senses be split off?"
  ],
  "statistics": {
    "bundles": 4,
    "layers": 8,
    "findings": 8,
    "questions": 16
  }
}