Sentences with word «talus»

The word "talus" refers to a pile or heap of loose rocks or debris that accumulate at the base of a steep slope or cliff. Full definition
But pockets of pikas are bucking that trend by living stably in shady talus slopes, the accumulated rockfall debris at the base of mountains.
The variations that seemed most important to her occur in a joint called the subtalar, where the rounded talus bone fits into the knobby calcaneus, or heel bone.
Called talus, the jagged, burnt - colored slabs look like tailings from a massive mine.
They are mostly very small talus caves along the collapse trench walls.
Creatures under strain from climate change include the American pika, a rabbitlike animal that lives on talus, or broken rock, in western alpine mountain regions.
At the lake's head, wavelets licked a fan - shaped talus under a steep slope of gray - brown shale.
By conjuring images — a stricken house, a gangrenous limb, a sliding talus — they make us feel we understand.
The park features unusual talus caves that house at least 13 species of bats.
Pinnacles National Park in California is a unique volcano formed landscape where visitors enter rare talus caves and emerge to towering rock spires teeming with life.
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.
Ten years after a fire, I can go around my site, take an eight foot half inch steel rebar, pound it hard to get it through the top six inches of rock - and - gravel - and - grass - roots - and - manzanita - roots, and then push it by hand down through the underlying talus slope from which the deeper tree roots have rotted out.
The injury claimant suffered soft tissue injuries to her neck and back, a fractured right talus, bruising to and pain in her chest, and pain in her left shoulder, both knees, and hip.
Pikas are small herbivores related to rabbits that live in fields of broken rock (called talus) in the mountains of western North America.
The Forest Service folks said my site looks a lot like areas nearby that lost that last fraction of an inch of topsoil, and its associated seed bank, and now are gravel and talus slopes on which nothing grows.
The rich vein of evangelical religion has run well - nigh out; and, though there are masses of apostolic origin lying everywhere, they are but fragments, and are evidently only the talus which has fallen from the cliffs above and scattered itself over the lowered surface.»
Though the animal has features from the prosimian (lemur) line of primates — a grooming claw, a tooth comb — it also has features from the anthropoid (monkey, ape, man) line — a talus bone in the ankle that makes standing upright possible... so it appears to be a well - preserved snapshot from our evolutionary line dating from just after the split with the lemurs, something scientists expected to find within the estimated time period.
We began with gentle, safe, non-force chiropractic adjustments to mobilize fixations in his hip, the bones of his lower leg - fibula and tibia as well as the talus and calcaneus of his right foot.
Pikas are related to rabbits and live in fields of broken rock (talus) in the mountains of North America.
In particular, the shape of the talus bone — directly above the heel and below the lower leg bone — differs widely among humans.
[* 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.]
The terrain in the axial valley can be tortured and rugged, filled with pits and caverns and tall pillars, with rubble, talus *, scree *.
I has to stop my career in 1999 due to a fracture in my foot (talus).
When Denis Peyrony became the first to excavate at Abri Cellier in 1905 (Peyrony, 1926, pp. 5), the southeastern margin of the talus had already been The Restoration of Priesthood Keys on Easter 1836 Part 1: Dating the First Easter.
You could not help but feel your speck like existence against the immensity of the mountain, the earth, the universe, and yet still feel your own two feet on the talus, reaffirming your presence amid the grandeur.
A smaller mountain grew out of the talus at this giant's feet, symmetrical and bald, a rocky dome surrounded by hardy pines that gradually mixed with and gave way to stately white birches and quaking aspens lower down in the valley.
The most common locations for OCD are the caudal humeral head (shoulder), lateral femoral condyle (knee), the medial humeral condyle (elbow) and the trochlear ridges of the talus (ankle or hock).
These unstable deposits are called talus or scree, and may be subject to frequent rockfalls and landslides.
It's amazing to feel it going clunk - clunk - clunk as the rebar pushes down through a talus slope that had been more or less inflated by the infiltration of roots and mycorrhiza and soil growing into the voids there.
«They don't have this talus to escape into.
Her research indicated that pika are able to regulate their temperature by burrowing much deeper into the talus, where cool air circulates.
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