enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Bow Lake (Alberta) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bow_Lake_(Alberta)

    Bow Lake is a small lake in western Alberta, Canada.It is located on the Bow River, in the Canadian Rockies, at an altitude of 1920 m.. The lake lies south of the Bow Summit, east of the Waputik Range (views including Wapta Icefield, Bow Glacier, Bow Peak, Mount Thompson, Crowfoot Glacier and Crowfoot Mountain) and west of the Dolomite Pass, Dolomite Peak and Cirque Peak.

  3. Rock flour - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_flour

    When the sediments enter a river, they turn the river's colour grey, light brown, iridescent blue-green, or milky white. If the river flows into a glacial lake, the lake may appear turquoise in colour as a result. When flows of the flour are extensive, a distinct layer of a different colour flows into the lake and begins to dissipate and settle ...

  4. Peyto Lake - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peyto_Lake

    The lake is best seen from Bow Summit, the highest point on the Icefields Parkway. [4] The lake is fed by Peyto Creek, which drains water from Caldron Lake and Peyto Glacier (part of the Wapta Icefield). Peyto Lake is the origin of the Mistaya River, [5] which heads northwest from the lake's outflow. Peyto Lake seen from Bow Summit

  5. Turquoise - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turquoise

    Some of this unusually-coloured turquoise may contain significant zinc and iron, which is the cause of the beautiful bright green to yellow-green shades. Some of the green to green-yellow shades may actually be variscite or faustite, which are secondary phosphate minerals similar in appearance to turquoise. A significant portion of the Nevada ...

  6. Bow Lake - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bow_Lake

    Bow Lake may refer to: In the United States: Bow Lake (New Hampshire) Bow Lake Village, New Hampshire, at the outlet of Bow Lake; Bow Lake (SeaTac, Washington)

  7. Ocean color - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_color

    Ocean color is the branch of ocean optics that specifically studies the color of the water and information that can be gained from looking at variations in color. The color of the ocean, while mainly blue, actually varies from blue to green or even yellow, brown or red in some cases. [1]

  8. Shocking before-and-after photos show California's famed ...

    www.aol.com/news/striking-photos-show-california...

    Clear Lake, one of California's oldest and most-visited lakes, is not so clear anymore after an algal bloom turned the water cloudy and green.. Images from NASA underscore the dramatic change in ...

  9. Turquoise (color) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turquoise_(color)

    Turquoise (/ ˈ t ɜːr k (w) ɔɪ z / TUR-k(w)oyz) is a cyan color, based on the mineral of the same name.The word turquoise dates to the 17th century and is derived from the French turquois, meaning 'Turkish', because the mineral was first brought to Europe through Turkey from mines in the historical Khorasan province of Iran (Persia) and Afghanistan today.