rock flour

noun

Fine-grained, silt-sized particles of rock generated by mechanical grinding of bedrock by glacial erosion or artificially.

Meanings

nounrock flour (countable and uncountable, plural rock flours)

plural rock flours

  1. countableuncountableFine-grained, silt-sized particles of rock generated by mechanical grinding of bedrock by glacial erosion or artificially.

    Synonyms: glacial flour, stonemeal

Synonyms & antonyms

nounFine-grained, silt-sized particles of rock generated by mechanical grinding of bedrock by glacial erosion or artificially.

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