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What is a varve?

What is a varve? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (geology) An annual layer of sediment or sedimentary rock.
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To varve, turn roast on a cut end and slice meat away from rack of bones.
Cosmogenic-nuclide and varve chronologies for the deglaciation of southern New England.
Thirty-six couplets were distinguished in the stratified calcareous clayey silt between 700 and 670 cm, however, varve counting in these rhythmites was aggravated.
In Sweden, by contrast, it has been possible to tie a glacial varve chronology to present time, and so create a truly absolute dating technique.
Each annual layer, known as a varve, contains organic evidence of the earth's climate and ocean temperatures for the year it was deposited, Briskin says.
The basal, coarse layer of a varve is commonly overlain by microlaminared silt and clay, reflecting variable streamflow during summer.

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