Word Finder - scree

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Loose stony debris on a slope.

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(by extension) Similar debris made up of broken building material such as bricks, concrete, etc.

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A slope made up of loose stony debris at the base of a cliff, mountain, etc.

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To traverse scree downhill.

Outside the lower end of each large transverse glen there is a scree of sedimentary matter.

It is also a good idea to feed the plants in the scree garden.

Coniston The area of Coniston is quite large, it includes several quarries, several beck 's and scree slopes.

This included climbing over boulders to get to likely areas of boulder scree, and getting onto the scree itself.

We make a very early start from here for the long climb up scree to Gilman's Point on the Crater Rim.

The path has been edged with rock-filled gabions to prevent the scree above from engulfing it.

So the map was of little help when the path forked into two steep scree runs.

Forms of scree dominated by bryophytes and lichens have also been taken into account in site selection.

By the time we had reached a small knoll set against the scree we were nicely warmed.

We chose to solo down Collie's Route down into Lotta Corrie then back up the scree to Bealach nan lice.

From here, the route follows steep scree, which improves as height is gained.

Ben Nevis Highland Ben Nevis is representative of high altitude siliceous scree in the northwest Scottish Highlands.

Here I'm starting back down the loose scree toward the track.

The route is covered with volcanic scree and you slip and slide downwards, really punishing your feet and your knees.

The base of several faces have slippery sandy scree.

These cliffs give rise to areas of block scree.

This remote valley has imposing scree slopes which dominate the skyline, sinking deep into the waters of the lake.

Drop down the scree to the valley and across easy ground to pass the tarns.

Alpine and oblong woodsia are small tufted montane ferns found in open rocky habitats, mainly on cliffs and scree slopes.

The snowy white scree is made from quartzite rock.

Beinn Eighe 57 1152 x 864 379K Beinn Eighe 's white quartzite scree spills down into Coire Dubh.

Descending scree at first, the southern side of the col soon leads to a choice of routes.

Crossing the scree we slogged up the snow slopes to the foot of the climb.

Here I 'm starting back down the loose scree toward the track.

From the scree slope below the quarry face collect 10 loose pebbles.

Then followed a steeply sided scree path with beautiful views.

Wayne, Neil and I were in our element - it was the greatest scree run on earth !

The ridge dropped away steeply on either side to vertical walls of rock which in turn went down to big scree gullies.

A scree fan ran from what must be a hidden gully.

Hear you can either look for fragments in the scree or try to obtain freshly cut shale slabs.

Hairy stonecrop Sedum villosum occurs where scree is flushed by springs.

Martin had been engaged in the braking of empty wagons adjacent to the colliery scree.

Yew is especially abundant on the scree immediately below the Scar.

We then carried on until we reached some scree.

Such broken material rolling down a uniform scarp would tend to reduce its steepness by the loss of material in the upper part and by the accumulation of a mound or scree against the loti ii er part of the slope.

It is probably separated on the east from the recent deposits of the pampas by a great fault, which, however, is always concealed by an enormous mass of scree material.

But in the " Drift " maps many other types of deposit are indicated, such, for instance, as the ordinary modern alluvium of rivers, and the older river terraces (River-drift of various ages), including gravels, brickearth and loam; old raised sea beaches and blown-sand (Aeolian-drift); the " Head " of Cornwall and Devon, an angular detritus consisting of stones with clay or loam; clay-with-flints, rainwash (landwash), scree and talus; the " Warp," a marine and estuarine silt and clay of the Humber; and also beds of peat and diatomite.