What is "scree"

Usage examples of "scree".

They climbed slopes of scree and breccia to see the scrubland all the miles to the forest, and something burning before them.

By the raised plain were slippy scree paths, so they held onto boscage while they climbed toward the dark.

Down dry, coarse-grained scree he stepped, braking as much as possible to contain the pull of the seventeen-hundred-ton strider on the incline.

Most of Fo was a vast, fiat waste of rock and scree, with little vegetation but the hardiest, thorny scrubs.

On this particular day, Horseface had taken the hunters out, leaving Merle Bowley, Counter Trimain and Erica to supervise the groups of sweating, grimy, loudly cursing Ganiks at work up on the scree.

Between branches they could see the peaks of the Jemez, some hanging in shadow, some shining with scree.

But there could be no marshes or marshfire goblins so high in the stony mountains, and she crawled back up the scree until she came to solid footing, then set off after the light.

Then the screes and cries of birds sounded, for the bird-sellers were shaking the small wooden cages packed with wood pigeons, owls, mousebirds, bee-eaters, hummingbirds, crows, blue rockthrushes, warblers, flycatchers, wagtails, hawks, falcons, eagles, and all manner of swans, ducks, chickens, and geese.

Ren finally appeared out of the woods, scrambling up the scree to the ridgetop, his chest heaving.

The pine-trees gave way to stunted larches, and these to pine scrub and bare scree, up which he scrambled, clutching at the tough bushes, terribly out of breath, his heart pumping, the sweat streaming into his eyes.

He saw moraines and scree slopes rising behind the three warlocks, the dark sky seeming to throb its blackness overhead.

These were rugged and bare, gaunt outcrops of reddish stone interspersed with scree.

All they saw when they came out of the rain squall and circled the bay were two parachutes lying side-by-side like two white mushrooms close under the first scree slope on Keava.

The hillside that sloped down to the river was bare of trees for some distance, the earth being strewn with scree and small boulders, and a number of these had been rolled into the river where the water ran shallow to form steppingstones, and it was in the distance across these steppingstones that he noticed the approach of two figures, a young man and a young woman.

Before the Bond, they had fought each other, battling Ho-aru against Nimishi, generation after generation, across cliffs and cols and scree and ravines, wherever they met.