The underlying bedrock of the hills is a flinty limestone. The volcanic soils create flinty cheeses and superb lentils. His early voice was described as "flinty and tender, beseeching and plaintive". The plateau is covered with a layer of flinty clay and a fertile silt. Colour&colon; pale flinty, whence the name. So Labeo did complain his love was stone,/Obdurate, flinty, so relentless none. According to wine expert Oz Clarke, Robola wines can have flinty character as well. The magazine praised her casting, as Redgrave "delivers a fine, flinty performance". The river's name is a translation from the Ojibwe language "Biiwaanagoonh-ziibi" (Flinty River).