rock varnish

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rock varnish (countable and uncountable, plural rock varnishes)

  1. A dark coating on rock surfaces exposed to the atmosphere, mostly comprising clay and oxides, which grows at only a few micrometers per thousand years; found especially in arid deserts.

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