Varve

A varve is an annual layer of sediment or sedimentary rock. The word 'varve' derives from the Swedish word varv whose meanings and connotations include...

thickness of sediment layers (known as "varve analysis"—the term "varve" means a layer or layers of sediment. Typically, varve refers to lake or glacial sediment)...

geomorphology and geochronology. De Geer is best known for his work on varves. In 1890 De Geer was the first to apply the name Ancylus Lake to the Baltic...

Prefectural Varve Museum is a geological and archeological museum located in Wakasa, Mikatakaminaka District, Fukui Prefecture, Japan. It features varve ranging...

technique such as ice core dating, dendrochronology, uranium-thorium dating or varve analysis is used as the primary method for age determination. If age is...

Vārve parish (Latvian: Vārves pagasts) is an administrative unit of the Ventspils Municipality, Latvia.The parish has a population of 1916 (as of 1/07/2010)...

light-hue inorganic layer in the dry season. Each pair of layers is called a varve and represents one year. The sediments of the Green River Formation present...

tropical cyclone activity. Miocene 5.92-5.32 Mya / Italy / Evaporite varve thickness The varve close to the Mediterranean shows 2–7 year variability, closely...

identified using X-ray diffraction rather than chemical or physical tests. Varve (or varved clay) is clay with visible annual layers that are formed by seasonal...

time-transgressive even within there. After an examination of laminated varve sequences, Muschitiello and Wohlfarth found that the environmental changes...

components (such as lamp filaments) and in hardening alloys (such as steel)" varve, "a pair of layers of alternately finer and coarser silt or clay believed...

sediment or sedimentary rock laid down with periodicity and regularity Varve – Annual layer of sediment or sedimentary rock "Science writer Richard Hill...

only penetrated the first few meters of sediment, they provided sufficient varves to give proxy climate data for up to 14,570 years BP. A team of scientists...

the innermost belong to the LGP. Llanquihue Lake's varves are a node point in southern Chile's varve geochronology. During the last glacial maximum, the...

sediments, or varves: silt and sand in the summertime (due to glacial meltwater) and clay in the wintertime (as the lake froze). Analysis of varves along Canoe...

ISSN 0016-7606. Retrieved 11 September 2023. Bradley, W. H. (1930). "The varves and climate of the Green River epoch". U.S. Geological Survey Professional...

the types of nutrients available. A paired (black and white) layer of the varved lake sediments correspond to a year. During winter, when organisms die,...

improvements to these curves are based on new data gathered from tree rings, varves, coral, plant macrofossils, speleothems, and foraminifera. There are separate...

of Lake Huron, with giant layers of now-lithified till beds, dropstones, varves, outwash, and scoured basement rocks. Correlative Huronian deposits have...

out, forming a thin layer on the ocean floor. Each band is similar to a varve, resulting from cyclic variations in oxygen production. Banded iron formations...