When new debris is added to the slope, thereby locally increasing the angle, the slope adjusts by movement of the debris to reestablish the angle. 2 : rock debris at the base of a cliff.
scree in Geography topic From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English scree scree / skriː / noun [ countable ] HEG an area of loose soil and broken rocks on the side of a mountain a scree slope Examples from the Corpus scree • In some places the topsoil had been eroded and we … Definition of talus. (Entry 1 of 2) 1 : a slope formed especially by an accumulation of rock debris.
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. First recorded in 1685–95, talus is from the Latin word tālus ankle, anklebone, die.
[ C or U ] geology plural taluses large, loose broken stones on the side of a mountain, or an area covered with stones like this: The settlement is built on the black talus of an active volcano.
Again, the result is… ————————————— scree (n.) “pile of debris at … Mainly used of military earthwork at first; meaning “sloping mass of rocky fragments that has fallen from a cliff” is first recorded 1830. es. OED, however, suggests derivation from root of talus (n.1) in the sense of “heel” which developed in its Romanic descendants. Talus slopes are a type in which debris piles up to a characteristic angle of repose. A sloping mass of rock debris at the base of a cliff. [French talus, from Old French talu, sloping side of an earthwork, from Latin talūtium, gold-bearing outcrop, perhaps of Celtic origin .] Talus (fortification), a sloped portion of a fortified wall Talus slope or deposit, a slope formed by an accumulation of broken rock debris, as at the base of a cliff or other high place, also called scree