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    Rock flour, or glacial flour, consists of fine-grained, silt-sized particles of rock, generated by mechanical grinding of bedrock by glacial erosion or...
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    available than white flour. Mrs Beeton's widely known 1861 recipe book includes two early recipes for rock cakes. One calls for flour, butter, 'moist sugar'...
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  • refer to: Flour (band), a musical project of Minneapolis musician Pete Conway Flour (album), an album by Australian band Screamfeeder Rock flour, fine particles...
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    summer, significant amounts of glacial rock flour flow into the lake from a nearby glacier, and these suspended rock particles are what give the lake a bright...
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    Canada from 1878 to 1883. The turquoise colour of the water comes from rock flour carried into the lake by melt-water from the glaciers that overlook the...
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    can decolorise oil or other liquids Perlite – Amorphous volcanic glass Rock flour – Glacier-generated sediment Siliceous ooze – Biogenic pelagic sediment...
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    phosphorus (P), and potassium (K) with occasional addition of supplements like rock flour for micronutrients. Farmers apply these fertilizers in a variety of ways:...
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    minerals in the rock over which the glacier passes. These pulverized minerals become sediment at the bottom of the lake, and some of the rock flour becomes suspended...
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    as rock flour or glacier meal, especially when produced by glacial action. Silt suspended in water draining from glaciers is sometimes known as rock milk...
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    below. The pulverized rock this process produces is called rock flour and is made up of rock grains between 0.002 and 0.00625 mm in size. Abrasion leads...
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    'colored, red'. Some mountain lakes and streams with finely ground rock, such as glacial flour, are turquoise. Light scattering by suspended matter is required...
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    of the estimated 60 tonnes/minute of dissolved salts and rock flour (very finely ground rock) generated by the erosive force of the Niagara River. The...
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  • (the material passes visible light, as normal). April (reported): "rock flour"—rock that has been finely ground by glaciers and having large surface area...
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    The fine-grained matrix consists of stiff, hard, pulverized clay or rock flour. Boulder clay is also known as drift clay; till; unstratified drift, Geschiebelehm...
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    within the borders of the park. All are vividly colored, most due to rock flour suspended in their waters. The main river flowing through the park is...
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    that make up the dunes are made up of very finely ground sand called rock flour that were deposited near the end of the last ice age. The region around...
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    from the Rockpile The blue-green colour of the lake is due to glacial rock flour. Moraine Lake in Banff National Park with floating timber Moraine Lake...
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    Saint-Flour (French: [sɛ̃fluʁ]; Auvergnat: Sant Flor) is a commune in the south-central French department of Cantal, approximately 100 km south of Clermont-Ferrand...
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  • Shellac. Flour's solo recordings feature the drum machine sound characteristic of Big Black, which was also toyed with by many other independent rock bands...
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    soils are a rich and varied blend, with deposits of gravels, sands, and rock flour, ground up and tilled by the glaciers, and left behind as they receded...
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    turquoise colour is associated with glacial sources and the minerals of rock flour suspended in the water.[citation needed] It is easily accessible on its...
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    color of other glacial lakes in the Rocky Mountains, which is caused by rock flour. Abraham Mountain, Elliott Peak, and the Cline River Heliport are located...
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    from top) and Lågen (entering from the right). Otta river has a milky-turquoise appearance from rock flour from glaciers upstream, such as Jotunheimen....
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    the bedrock speeds abrasion. The meltwater constantly rinses away the rock flour allowing the coarser fragments to abrade bedrock. Speed of the glacier...
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    River, its water a bluish light grey colour due to the suspended glacial rock flour in the meltwater. At Stocking Stream, crossed by the track on a small...
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    been found in deposits of Lake Missoula. Possibly, glacial sediment, rock flour, suspended in the turbid lake water which created an hostile aquatic habitat...
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    George Bird Grinnell, the lake has an opaque turquoise appearance from the rock flour (silt) which is transported to the lake from Grinnell Glacier. Grinnell...
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    state of Wyoming. Delta Lake is situated in Glacier Gulch and is fed rock flour (glacial silt) from the Teton Glacier, which turns the water turquoise...
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  • color. The green color is the result from glacier runoff containing clay (rock flour). Looking down towards Memurubu one can see the nearby river Muru coloring...
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  • (indigenous spelling Kwàdàta or Kwodàch). The river contains high amounts of rock flour, so "white" is reference to the colour of the water, not to rapids. Kwadacha...
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