
thumb|upright=1.35|Pleistocene glacial lake varves at Sandend Bay in Scotland A varve is an annual layer of sediment or sedimentary rock.
thumb|upright=1.35|Pleistocene glacial lake varves at Sandend Bay in Scotland 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 'revolution', 'in layers', and 'circle'.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).