Which preposition to use with taluses
Look again, as stronger proof, at the talus of broken stonesscrees, as they call them in Scotland; rattles, as we call them in Devonwhich lie along the base of many mountain cliffs.
Detached masses of the invading snow, mixed with fragments of ice, drift about in sludgy, island-like heaps, while the main body of it forms a talus with its base wholly or in part resting on the bottom of the basin, as controlled by its depth and the size of the avalanche.
The Panamints towered a wrinkled red grisly mass, broken by rough canyons, with long declines of talus like brown glaciers.
The Mountain Live Oak (Q. Chrysolepis) is a tough, rugged mountaineer of a tree, growing bravely and attaining noble dimensions on the roughest earthquake taluses in deep cañons and yosemite valleys.