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This movie introduces “Varve Museum” in ways easy to understand .
Lake Suigetsu, one of the Five Lakes of Mikata, collects attentions of researchers worldwide. At the bottom of it, annually laminated sediment called “varves” has been deposited for over 70,000 years where such a long varves is very rare in the world. It contains 2 values. One is the clue to understand past environments and the other is the global standard of geological time scale in terms of radiocarbon dating. The completely continuous varves for 70,000 years (45m long) is exhibited at Fukui Prefectural Varve Museum and you experience history from the present to the past up to 70,000 years ago there.