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Scree. Talus at the bottom of Mount Yamnuska, Alberta, Canada. Scree is a collection of broken rock fragments at the base of a cliff or other steep rocky mass that has accumulated through periodic rockfall. Landforms associated with these materials are often called talus deposits.
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam. A blockfield [1] (also spelt block field [2] ), felsenmeer, [1] boulder field [1] [2] or stone field [2] is a surface covered by boulder- or block-sized rocks usually associated with a history of volcanic activity, alpine and subpolar climates and periglaciation. Blockfields differ from screes and talus slope in that ...
Red Screes is a fell in the English Lake District, situated between the villages of Patterdale and Ambleside. It may be considered an outlier of the Fairfield group in the Eastern Fells , but is separated from its neighbours by low cols .
Whin Rigg is a fell in the English Lake District, situated in the western segment of the national park, 22 kilometres (14 miles) south east of the town of Whitehaven.It reaches only a modest altitude of 535 m (1,755 ft) but is part of one of the Lake District’s most dramatic landscapes in that the rugged and impressive Wastwater Screes (also known as "The Screes") fall from the fells summit ...
Stratified slope deposit. Stratified slope deposits or grèzes litées (original French name) are accumulations of debris that are traditionally associated with periglaciation but that can also form in other settings. [1] [2] The deposits have a weak sorting and a coarse bedding. Stratified slope deposits are usually found at the lower slopes ...
Clough Head. / 54.59326°N 3.03379°W / 54.59326; -3.03379. Clough Head ( / klʌf hɛd /) ( meaning: hill-top above the ravine) is a fell, or hill, in the English Lake District. It marks the northern end of the main ridge of the Helvellyn range and is often walked as part of the ridge walk. The fell stands south of the village of ...
The Mantell Screes) are a rock spur rising to about 1,500 metres (5,000 ft) and bounded by screes (taluses), located northwest of Arkell Cirque on the north side of the Read Mountains, Shackleton Range, Antarctica
The geology of the Yorkshire Dales National Park in northern England largely consists of a sequence of sedimentary rocks of Ordovician to Permian age. The core area of the Yorkshire Dales is formed from a layer-cake of limestones, sandstones and mudstones laid down during the Carboniferous period. It is noted for its karst landscape which ...