Supplemental Material: Paleogene loess emerged before the Eocene–Oligocene transition in the western United States
Abstract
Additional methodological information and supporting analyses, including procedures for grain-size pretreatment, model evaluation, and hyperparameter settings applied for the supervised models, along with Figures S1–S5 illustrating stratigraphic logs, confusion matrices for unsupervised and supervised models, and supervised model applications to the Fan et al. (2020) dataset. Raw grain-size dataset including sample names, depths, full grain-size distributions, statistical parameters, and machine-learning classification results for the White River Formation samples (Data S1).
Fields of Study & Subjects
Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
Geological formations and processes
Soil and Environmental Studies
Publication details
- Publication date
- 12 January 2026