occurrence in varved deposits...in recent and ancient sedimentary sequences, where they are often termed varvite, frequently display disruption of the fine lamination and couplets by outsize clasts. These clasts are called dropstones and were introduced vertically through the water column into the lake area, where only fine-grained sediments normally accumulate, by ice rafting and melting. This phenomenon of disrupted......varves that are laid down in modern glacial lakes at the front of retreating glaciers or ice sheets. Each of these layers defines an annual accumulation of sediment. Varved sediments may contain dropstones, which are fragments of rock that have dropped from an overlying floating ice sheet and that have sunk into and depressed the layers beneath them. When all these features are found...
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