The sea-cliffs still stand as they first stood, except that frost has wrought upon their faces so as to crumble away a portion and make a low talus at the base.
Much talus has accumulated in this cave, over which there is at present a fairly easy though winding and zigzag path to the entrance from the top of the hill, and a rough and difficult way from the bottom.
Talus has accumulated in front of the openings or partially filled the front chambers; it may well be the case that this conceals much refuse.
Owing to the talus the interior is in almost total darkness.
At the front is a great amount of talus partly fallen from the ledge forming the roof, partly washed down from the hillside; the outer slope is 20 feet high, the inner slope has a slight incline to the standing water.
The entrance, 35 feet wide, can be reached conveniently only near one wall, as a pile of talus immediately in front completely closes the opening; behind it the roof is 7 feet above the floor.
A pile of talus at the front, lying partly inside the cavern, reaches nearly to the roof; it has a height of 26 to 28 feet above the level of the wet, muddy floor.
Were it not for the pile of talus in front, water from the river would pour into the cavern in extreme floods; these subside very rapidly, however, and have never percolated through the barrier.
The body had been placed in a shallow hole dug in the talus as it existed at that time, some earth thrown over it, and small rocks piled on.
The talusat the mouth is of tough clay with many rocks scattered through it, and much of it has settled back into the cave.
The water which flows from the hill and falls upon the talus during rains also had to be provided against.
If all this talus were examined, much material might be found, but the result would not justify the labor.
They were almost out of reach of the Cretan shores, when Talus came into view, and, perceiving that his master's prisoners were about to escape, leaned forward to catch the vessel by its rigging.
It is a natural slab, evidently from a talusrather than the shore, its native locus being probably the western slope of Sierra Seri.
In the cave of Rabanel, the first well, which ends in a talus of fallen stones, furnishes an instance of a vertical fissure grafted, if we may use the word, upon an interior grotto that already existed.
Considerable talus banks close the ends of these broad pits, and are generally produced by the caving in of the roofs of caves.
This plant occurs on rock talus along the north side of Cowlitz Glacier.
Not rare in talus at the base of basalt cliffs on the east side of the mountain at 7,000 feet altitude.
Projecting ledges interrupt the talus slopes and express differences of hardness in the several beds, while variations in color also indicate separate lava flows and agglomeratic deposits.
Occurs on the talus of the high cliffs on the north side of Cowlitz Glacier.
Rather rare in the loose basalt talus near the base of Little Tahoma.
Forming crown-like tufts in the talus at the foot of cliffs in Paradise Park.
A form of this variable species occurs on the talus at the foot of the cliffs on the north side of Cowlitz Glacier.
Found in talusbetween Urania and White Glaciers by Professor Flett.
Blocks of andesite cover the slope, deposited there by the glacier at a time when it possessed greater lateral extent, and the granite talus from above crosses this same slope in a narrow band.
Tracks and feces indicate that foxes forage under dense brush, on open rocky ridges, in riparian growth, on talus slopes, and in groves of big cone-spruce and scrub oak.
In the upper chaparral association the squirrels frequented the large scrub oaks growing on talus slopes and canyon sides.
Heteromyids are evidently absent from the upper parts of the chaparral association, but cricetid rodents are common there beneath heavy clumps of lilac and in the talus beneath oaks and bay trees.
Several areas of talus occupied by woodrats were examined carefully and no sign of houses was noted.
Two specimens of this species from the granite talus above the base of Icehouse Canyon at 5500 feet on the Pacific slope, grade strongly toward simplex.
In the upper part of the chaparral belt in talus these woodrats live beneath the angular boulders and build no visible houses.
A few gambeli were trapped amid the talus beneath growths of scrub oak and bay trees in San Antonio Canyon, at 4300 feet elevation.
Damnosa senem juvat alea," The talus had four flat sides, the two ends being rounded.
The primary fracture is usually longitudinal, passing through the facets for the talus and cuboid, and from this various secondary fissures radiate; the cancellated tissue is much crushed, so that the whole bone is flattened out.
In a large proportion of cases the dislocation is compound, more or less of the talus being forced through the skin (Fig.
In the backward and lateral variety, the medial malleolus and head of the talus project unduly towards the medial side of the foot, which is abducted and everted.
When the talus passes upwards between the tibia and fibula, it is sometimes impossible to effect reduction by manipulation, and the best results are then obtained by operation.
When the foot passes backward and medially, the head of the talus projects on the outer part of the dorsum, resting on the cuboid.
When the foot is dorsiflexed at the moment of injury the displacement is backward, but this is rare, as is also dislocation to one or other side, and dislocation by rotation, in which the talus is rotated in its socket.
In cases in which the interosseous ligament is ruptured, and in severe cases of Dupuytren's fracture, the talus may be driven upwards between the bones of the leg.
When the bones are widely separated in Dupuytren's fracture the talus may be forced up between them.
In Dupuytren's fracture, when the talus passes up between the tibia and fibula, there is great broadening of the ankle.
The bones also are altered in their shape and mutual relations, the talus being rotated forwards so that a large portion of its trochlear surface protrudes from the tibio-fibular socket.
Below and in front of the prominent medial malleolus, the head of the talus forms a rounded eminence, and a little farther forwards and lower still is the projection of the tubercle of the navicular.
Within a few hundred feet of the shore, sandy beaches give way to the talus slopes of the mesas and peaks which edge the bay.
He has also found nearly fifty implements in the talus of Oldbury Hill.
For the most part they have been picked up on the shore and on the talus of the gravel-capped cliff, but they have occasionally been found in the gravel itself.
Might they not belong merely to the talusof this bank of boulder-clay?
The green talus slopes upwards, as its basement, for full three hundred feet; and a noble wall of perpendicular rock, that towers over and beyond for at least four hundred feet more, forms the rampart.
The grassy talus so often mentioned continues to run on the eastern side of the island for about six miles, between the sea and the inaccessible rampart of precipice behind.
As the talusis removed and weathers away its slope retreats together with the retreat of the cliff, as seen in Figure 9.
The amount of talus in any place depends both on the rate of its formation and the rate of its removal.
The moving floor of ice stretched high across a valley sweeps along as lateral moraines much of the waste which a mountain stream would let accumulate in talus and alluvial cones.
In a moist climate a soluble rock, such as massive limestone, may form talus little if any faster than the talus weathers away.
Cliffs of such slow-decaying rocks as quartzite and granite when closely jointed accumulate talus in large amounts.
Sooner or later a talus reaches that equilibrium where the amount removed from its surface just equals that supplied from the cliff above.
On the sides of canyons, and elsewhere where the edges of strata are exposed, the harder layers project as cliffs, while the softer weather back to slopes covered with the talus of the harder layers above them.
Thus a barrier reef may be formed by the seaward growth of a fringing reef upon the talus of its sea face.
At the foot of this submarine cliff a talus of fallen blocks t accumulates, and as it reaches the zone of coral growth becomes the foundation on which the reef is steadily extended seaward.
They therefore erode but little until the talus fallen from the cliff is gradually built up beneath the sea to the level at which the waves drag bottom upon it and break.
On the canyon walls they weather back in horizontal terraces and long talus slopes.
The oversteepened sides of the trough are graded by landslips, by talus slopes, and by alluvial cones.
The attitude of this fault at the point where it disappears below the talus is: strike, N.
The talus from the Tower is composed of fragments of the columns that range from a few inches in diameter to large sections of the columns as much as 8 feet in diameter and 25 feet long.
The talus consists of fragments of medium-grained brownish-white sandstone and, what is apparently, a highly silicified gray or white fine-grained quartzite.
This member encircles Devils Tower, but at most places it is covered by talus from the Tower.
Locally, landslides of this talus have extended through valleys in the sedimentary rock down almost to the level of the surrounding streams.
The talus material from the Tower has at several places overlapped the cliff of Hulett sandstone and become mixed with the material from the cliff.
About 1,400 feet north of the Tower are two patches of what is believed to be talus formed from sedimentary rocks that once surrounded the Tower.
The talus extends from high on the shoulders of the Tower down to and across the sedimentary rock.
The cliff of Hulett sandstone that surrounds the Tower breaks off into rectangular blocks that form talus slopes at the base of the cliffs and locally large landslides down the hill below the cliffs.
Talus from the Tower forms a broad apron that completely surrounds the Tower.
A beautiful scarlet gilia (Gilia aggregata Spreng) grows on the talus of the giant mesa on which ancient Awatobi stood.
Both unite near two great natural rock-cisterns, and then deviate below, the Indian trail zigzagging to the left, while Mr. Bass engineered a new trail of easy grade on the talus to the right.
Attached to this talus is a large mass of solid concrete made of pebbles, rocks, and sand that have been washed down in the creek and made cohesive by the lime from the water.
Dotting the slopes of the talus at the foot of the mesa precipices are corn-fields, peach orchards, and corrals for burros, sheep, and goats.
Stand on the slope here, where a mass of talus rises from the trail side, so that we can survey the whole of the picturesque scene.
The marshes of the rivulet were drained, and at the summit of the promontory was to be seen cutting the sky the talus of an Oppidum which commanded the valley and the two streams.
Some say, indeed, that this Taluswas hammered out for King Minos by Vulcan himself, the skilfullest of all workers in metal.
The only difficulty was that between ourselves and that point of talus extended a piece of sheer wall.
It seemed hopeless; but at last I found a place where a point of the talus ran up to a level not much below our own.
Each of these we passed on the talus beneath it; but with increasing difficulty, owing to the fact that the wide ledges were pinching out.
To our left was a hundred-foot drop to the talusthat sloped down to the cañon.
This invention, which greatly facilitates labour, excited the envy of his master, and instigated him to put Talus to death privately.
That Talus found the jaw-bone of a snake with teeth like a saw is extremely probable, for there are many snakes which have teeth of that kind.
The east bluff of Devil's lake, showing the dip of quartzite (to the left), and talusabove and below the level where the beds are shown.
Its slopes are more rugged, and piles of talus lie at their bases as at Devil's lake.
The great talus slopes at the base of the bluffs, such as those on the west side of the lake and on the East bluff near its southeast corner, Plate XXIV, are silent witnesses of the extent to which this process has already gone.
He found, on removing the taluswhich filled up the depression on the face of the rock, a level terrace leading to the mouth of the cave.
Talus tried to leap up, crying, "You have betrayed me, false witch-maiden.
Then that simple Talus dipped himself in the sea, and came and knelt before Medeia and showed the secret nail.
In the northern and southern ends of the group the talus encroaches on and partly covers the purple-gray stratum, and in these places the talus has been removed from the face of the rock to permit the excavation of lodges.
From a base of lava and tuff, with a talus slope above, there rose the main castellated block composed of upright columns of basalt.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "talus" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
