glacial milk

American  

noun

1. waters of a glacial stream in which particles of light-colored silt are suspended.

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Example Sentences

But our sunrise also had messily impossible combinations, from the glacial milk metallic blue of the ice floes to the desert rose clouds.

From New York Times

The opaque turquoise tint on Peyto Lake in Banff National Park, Canada, is caused by light bouncing off silt suspended in the water, known as "glacial milk".

From BBC