Geologists define talus as the pile of rocks that accumulates at the base of a cliff, chute, or slope. The formation of a talus slope results from the talus accumulation. Because the term "talus" incorporates the concept of a pile, many...

Scree, also called talus and detritic cone, is a term given to broken rock that appears at the bottom of crags, mountain cliffs or valley shoulders, forming a scree slope. The maximum inclination of such deposits corresponds to the angle of repose of...

COUGAR, Wash. - If you were offered a ticket to peer into the center of the earth, would you take it? The US Forest Service announced in July that it would offer permits 100 a day through October to climb Monitor Ridge on...

Abstract Zacharda M., Boucníková E.: Screes as important landscape structures for xeric and psychrophilic biota conservation and monitoring environmental change in the Czech Republic. Ekológia (Bratislava), Vol. 24, Supplement 1/2005, p. 28-38. Scree or talus formations have developed by way of the...

LAURIE: So we're at the White Eagle (scree) Conference Center, and I'm feeling less than psyched about the room that we've chosen to host our wedding reception. The ceilings are perilously low, the décor hurts my internal organs, and it doesn't seem nearly big enough...