Rock flour

{
  "id": "MLC-T-AGR-005563",
  "term": "Rock flour",
  "field": "Agriculture and food",
  "definition": "Fine-grained, silt-size sediment formed by the mechanical erosion of bedrock at the base and sides of a glacier by moving ice. When it enters a stream, it turns the stream's color brown, gray, iridescent blue-green, or milky white. Also called glacier flour or glacier milk.",
  "synonyms": [
    "glacial flour",
    "glacier flour",
    "glacier milk"
  ],
  "subject": "Fields of Study",
  "see_also": [
    "sediments",
    "glaciers",
    "bedrock",
    "rocks",
    "suspended sediment",
    "streams",
    "sediment transport",
    "sediment yield"
  ],
  "references": [
    "Glossary of Glacier Terminology, U.S. Geological Survey",
    "NAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary"
  ],
  "translations": {
    "es": "harina de roca"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/agriculture/rock-flour/"
}