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- in the geological record, varves are one of the most important and illuminating in studies of past climate change. Varves are amongst the smallest-scale...
- geologists became involved in the study of varves and more sites were examined. However, international interest in varves diminished. The bitter dispute between...
- fine-grained rhythmites that are laid down in layers known as varves or varvites. A varve represent an annual deposit of silt and clay. Sedimentation in...
- surfaces include: outwash plains, kames, kame terraces, kettle holes, eskers, varves, and proglacial lakes. Mel****er streams and formed by glaciers, especially...
- sediments, or varves: silt and sand in the summertime (due to glacial mel****er) and clay in the wintertime (as the lake froze). Analysis of varves along Canoe...
- stratified and sorted sediments in the form of outwash plains, eskers, kames, varves, and so forth. The term drift clay is a synonym for boulder clay. Both are...
- importance in the development of varve chronology, the 'Quaternary glacial varves of Ragunda' were included by the International Union of Geological Sciences...
- environments (in glacier lakes) are a special case. They are called varves. Quaternary varves are used in stratigraphy and palaeoclimatology to reconstruct...
- include: Dendrochronology Sampling Ice cores Lichenometry Paleomagnetic dating Varves Speleothems Acanthochronology Sclerochronology The axis of rotation is inclined...
- Vārve parish (Latvian: Vārves pagasts) is an administrative unit of Ventspils Muni****lity in the Courland region of Latvia.The parish has a po****tion...