[Paddlewise] "Rock dust" revisited

Thanks to all who provided suggestions on the technical term for the rock
"dust", "flour", "milt", etc.  My "senior moments" had merged to such an
extent that I could not remember the term I wanted --- but Ken Fink,
geological oceanographer extraordinaire, came though with it --- loess.  My
dictionary calls loess "a buff to gray, fine-grained calcareous clay or silt,
held to be a deposit of wind-blown dust."  For two weeks, I called it my
environment.

Jack
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