| 1. | All are vividly colored, most due to rock flour suspended in their waters.
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| 2. | Suspended as rock flour, the fine sediments would have rendered Lake Connecticut a turquoise blue-green.
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| 3. | The green color is the result from glacier runoff containing clay ( rock flour ).
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| 4. | They are embedded in rock flour and silt.
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| 5. | Some agronomists believe that rock flour has a powerful effect in restoring trace minerals to soil.
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| 6. | In global terms this is rare, because glacially fed rivers are normally discoloured by rock flour.
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| 7. | We also learned the secret of the mountain lakes'brilliant turquoise color : a substance called rock flour.
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| 8. | Rock flour is carried out from the system via meltwater streams, where the particles travel in suspension.
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| 9. | Its water is a milky bluish light grey due to the suspended glacial rock flour in the water.
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| 10. | Mistaya River originates in Peyto Lake, a glacial lake of typical blue colour ( due to rock flour ).
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