Sentences with phrase «steep talus»
From this steep talus slope beneath the sheer face of Cerro Yanaorco, immense red granite building stones were carved onsite and then skidded down to the valley floor, across the river, and then up to the sun temple site on the far side of the valley.
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[* Professor's note: A talus is a sloping pile of rock fragments at the foot of a cliff; a scree is an accumulation of pebbles or rock fragments at the base of a steep slope.]