A scree fan ran from what must be a hidden gully.
Alpine and oblong woodsia are small tufted montane ferns found in open rocky habitats, mainly on cliffs and scree slopes.
Beinn Eighe 57 1152 x 864 379K Beinn Eighe 's white quartzite scree spills down into Coire Dubh.
Ben Nevis Highland Ben Nevis is representative of high altitude siliceous scree in the northwest Scottish Highlands.
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.
By the time we had reached a small knoll set against the scree we were nicely warmed.
Coniston The area of Coniston is quite large, it includes several quarries, several beck 's and scree slopes.
Crossing the scree we slogged up the snow slopes to the foot of the climb.
Descending scree at first, the southern side of the col soon leads to a choice of routes.
Drop down the scree to the valley and across easy ground to pass the tarns.
Forms of scree dominated by bryophytes and lichens have also been taken into account in site selection.
From here, the route follows steep scree, which improves as height is gained.
From the scree slope below the quarry face collect 10 loose pebbles.
Hairy stonecrop Sedum villosum occurs where scree is flushed by springs.
Hear you can either look for fragments in the scree or try to obtain freshly cut shale slabs.
Here I 'm starting back down the loose scree toward the track.
Here I'm starting back down the loose scree toward the track.
It is also a good idea to feed the plants in the scree garden.
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.
Martin had been engaged in the braking of empty wagons adjacent to the colliery scree.
Outside the lower end of each large transverse glen there is a scree of sedimentary matter.
So the map was of little help when the path forked into two steep scree runs.
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.
The base of several faces have slippery sandy scree.
The path has been edged with rock-filled gabions to prevent the scree above from engulfing it.
The ridge dropped away steeply on either side to vertical walls of rock which in turn went down to big scree gullies.
The route is covered with volcanic scree and you slip and slide downwards, really punishing your feet and your knees.
The snowy white scree is made from quartzite rock.
Then followed a steeply sided scree path with beautiful views.
These cliffs give rise to areas of block scree.
This included climbing over boulders to get to likely areas of boulder scree, and getting onto the scree itself.
This remote valley has imposing scree slopes which dominate the skyline, sinking deep into the waters of the lake.
Wayne, Neil and I were in our element - it was the greatest scree run on earth !
We chose to solo down Collie's Route down into Lotta Corrie then back up the scree to Bealach nan lice.
We make a very early start from here for the long climb up scree to Gilman's Point on the Crater Rim.
We then carried on until we reached some scree.
Yew is especially abundant on the scree immediately below the Scar.