Glacial Flour by bmac62
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Follow-up to my last two postings...
Diablo Lake behind the 389 foot tall Diablo Dam on the Skagit River in the Cascade Mountains in Washington State.
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Glacial flour or rock flour, consists of fine-grained, silt-sized particles of rock, generated by mechanical grinding of bedrock by glacial erosion. Because the material is very small, it becomes suspended in river water making the water appear cloudy, which is sometimes known as glacial milk.
When the sediments enter a river, it turns the river's color gray, light brown, iridescent blue-green, or milky white. If the river flows into a glacial lake, the lake may appear TURQUOISE in color as a result:)
Bill
P.S. Zoom worthy.
Comments (32)
Faemike55
Very cool photo and great explanation
jocko500
wonderful and thanks for the information
EJD64
I like the picture and when you zoom you can see the electric line right above the water. Neat.
bobrgallegos
Great capture of this beautiful landscape!!! Great info!
DSSavant
I rode my bike up there last weekend. Very nice area indeed. Great pic.
auntietk
Great shot! You got the green of the water just right. SUCH an odd color, but that's really what it's like! I could hardly believe it. Good memories ... hot day, nice bikers, gorgeous view, photography, and a dog pulling at the leash with every shutter click. LOL!
durleybeachbum
Breathtaking! I wish we had had photos like this when I did a level Geography!
whaleman
Great shot Bill!
fallen21
Splendid view, well captured!
jayfar
Beautiful Bill and very well framed.
jendellas
Wow, Bill another beauty!!
alanwilliams
superb Bill a grand setting and a majestic viewpoint.
Blush
Excellent image Hugs Susan~
cfulton
What a view, Bill, something I have never seen before. I like the branches in the top corners, framing the image. Clive
MrsRatbag
What a beautiful shot, Bill! Gorgeous scene, and I love that colour!
kenmo
So very beautiful....
Adobe_One_Kenobi
Excellent shot Bill, and thanks for the explanation, I always assumed it was copper levels in the water that mad it this colour.
Maxidyne
"I see trees of green, green rivers too". I've never seen anything like this before Bill and it's blown me away. If it's ok with you i'd like to use this as my desktop wallpaper. Magnificent!
sharky_
Superb scenic view. Aloha
kgb224
Ii is if i am just there. Such an amazing capture Bill. God Bless.
helanker
What an amazing sight. Fantastic color of the river :-) Super shot too.
flavia49
fantastic image
npauling
It really is a great colour and this capture really shows how torquise it really is.
Chipka
This is stunning! I love the names that particular things have, and in this case, glacial flour, which makes me think of a form of flour that is used in the very slow baking of bread. I suspect there MIGHT be a story in there. I love the bird's eye POV here and the sense of color is astonishingly crisp. This is really brilliant.
ia-du-lin
wonderful landscape, great pov
RodS
That is soooo cool, Bill! Wow - that lake has such a surreal look to it. A great bit of information to go along wuth a spectaculat photo!
X-PaX
Very nice capture.
Mondwin
Great explanation and superbly capture my friend!!Bravissimo!:DDD.Hugsxx Whylma
nikolais
stunning colors and compo! bravo!
Richardphotos
that is really something Bill. I have heard the term before but this really shows it well