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8 minutes ago bilby said:

"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."
- Encyclopaedia Britannica.

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