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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...
season. Each pair of layers is called a varve and represents one year. The sediments of the Green River Formation present a continuous record of six million...
floor. Each band is similar to a varve, resulting from cyclic variations in oxygen production. Banded iron formations were first discovered in northern...
Snowball Earth (section Banded iron formations)Tappa, E.; Anderson, D. M. (1 December 1995). "Sediment fluxes and varve formation in Santa Barbara Basin, offshore California". Geology. 23 (12): 1083–6...
Prefectural Varve Museum is a geological and archeological museum located in Wakasa, Mikatakaminaka District, Fukui Prefecture, Japan. It features varve ranging...
Blast-Zone Lake at Mount St. Helens, Washington – Implications for Varve Formation". USGS Staff – Published Research Paper 301. University of Nebraska...
good example of lacustrine plain formation caused by the ice readvance and drainage of Lake Ojibway. By analyzing the varve sequences and dividing them into...
salamanders, lizards and crocodiles. The primary lithology consists of 1 mm thick varve laminations of claystone, with a dark part and a light dolomitic part, which...- bird. The laminated yellowish mudstones of the Xiagou Formation are the lithified remnants of varves that were laid down as extremely fine silt settled to...
Oil shale geology (redirect from Oil shale formation)Oil shale geology is a branch of geologic sciences which studies the formation and composition of oil shales–fine-grained sedimentary rocks containing...
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...- clays show a rhythmical, varve-like layering. The member overlies the summital mudcracks of the Bembridge Limestone Formation without any discontinuity...
- Houyuan; Liu, Qiang; Liu, Tungsheng (October 2005). "Sediment Fluxes and Varve Formation in Sihailongwan, a Maar Lake from Northeastern China". Journal of Paleolimnology...
sediment or sedimentary rock laid down with periodicity and regularity Varve – Annual layer of sediment or sedimentary rock "Science writer Richard Hill...- The Castile Formation is a geologic formation in west Texas and southeastern New Mexico, United States. It was deposited in the Ochoan Stage of the Permian...
The Ciechocinek Formation (also known as the Gryfice Formation at Suliszewo), known in Germany as the Green Series (German: Grüne Serie) is a Jurassic...
earthquakes that presumably formed them, by dating using radiocarbon or varves above and below the turbidite. Turbidite sequences are classic hosts for...- sea level. Gibbard (1979) found in the Finchley area "a persistent bed of varve-like laminated silty clay or sandy silt up to 1.5 metres thick", lying between...
gypsum bed (the Tonque Arroyo Member). Based on varve counts in the Luciano Mesa Member, the formation was laid down in a geologically brief period of...- Canada): facies analysis, laminae preservation, and potential for varve formation", Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 55 (2), NRC Research Press, retrieved...
- use of varves for dating; now since varves incorporate organic material as they are formed, we can check that when we radiocarbon date a varve, we get