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
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
Lake Louise (Alberta)
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Lake Louise is a glacial lake within Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada. Situated 11 km east of the border with British Columbia, Lake Louise is located 5 km west of the community of Lake Louise a
Rock flour
…flow from the glacier during snow melts and heavy rain periods. Examples of this phenomenon may be seen at Lake Pukaki and Lake Tekapo in New Zealand, Lake Louise, Moraine Lake, Emerald Lake, and Peyto Lake in Canada, Gjende lake in Norway, and several lakes (among others, Nordenskjöld and Pehoé) in Chile's Torres…
Lake Louise from above