Moraine Lake
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Moraine Lake is a snow and glacially fed alpine lake in Banff National Park, 14 kilometres outside the village of Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada. It is situated in the Valley of the Ten Peaks, at an ele
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Moraine Lake at Sunset
Moraine Lake in June 2018
Rock flour
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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 by artificial grinding to a similar size. Becaus
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…is full, it reflects a distinctive shade of azure blue. The unique colour is due to the refraction of the blue end of the spectrum of sunlight off the rock sediment deposited in the lake on a continual basis in summer by the surrounding glaciers. The lake is completely created by nature and has not been dammed…
Rock flour from glacial melt enters Lake Louise, Canada
Rock flour intensifies the water's hue at Hokitika Gorge on the West Coast of New Zealand
Muru river pours rock flour into Gjende lake, Norway
Östra Blanktjärn Lake in Vålådalen Nature Reserve, Sweden