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Glacial flour

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rock flournounFine-grained, silt-sized particles of rock generated by mechanical grinding of bedrock by glacial erosion or artificially.
stonemealnounrock flour
glacial milknounMeltwater which appears cloudy because glacial flour (rock flour) is suspended in it.
glacial tillnoun(geology) an unstructured geological deposit composed of boulders, clay, gravel, sand, and silt that is transported by glacial drift.
gritrocknoungritstone
glaurnounMud, slime, mire.
glacial erraticnounA rock that differs from the size and type of rock native to the area in which it rests, usually large and transported there by a glacier.
granulitenoun(geology) A fine-grained metamorphic rock composed chiefly of feldspar, quartz, and garnets.
chrystocrenenounSynonym of rock glacier.
rock-glassnounAlternative spelling of rock glass. [(chemistry, mining, geology) Metastable glass of volcanic or dyke origin.]
argilnounpotter's clay.
flour goldnounfine gold dust and low-grain nuggets commonly recovered by prospectors.
hälleflintanounA fine-grained rock consisting of an intimate mixture of quartz and feldspar, sometimes banded or striated, sometimes containing porphyritic crystals of quartz.
siliciclasticnounSuch a rock
tillitenoun(geology) Glacial till cemented into a solid rock.
floatstonenounA kind of calcareous rock, more than 10% of which is made up of grains larger than two millimetres, and which is matrix-supported.
liquor of flintsnoun(obsolete) A solution of silica, or flints, in potash.
liquor silicumnounliquor of flints
french whitenounAn especially pure form of white lead, particularly as used in paints.
lithomargenoun(archaic) Synonym of kaolinite.

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