Screes

It was on that same morning that the news reached Cliff Castle, where similar stories had floated about witches and warlocks having taken possession of the shivering hills, where the slatey rocks were always falling, and forming what the country people called screes, which, at a distance, when wet and shiny, looked in the sunshine like cascades descending from on high. ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)

ECOLOGY: Casuarina junghuhniana is wholely tropical in distribution, and is a native of highlands in Indonesia where it pioneers deforested lands such as screes (rocky slopes) and grasslands, and in disturbed areas it replaces mixed mountain forest plant communities (NAS 1984). ❋ Unknown (1996)

Casuarina junghuhniana is wholely tropical in distribution, and is a native of highlands in Indonesia where it pioneers deforested lands such as screes (rocky slopes) and grasslands, and in disturbed areas it replaces mixed mountain forest plant communities (NAS 1984). ❋ Unknown (1990)

My Huntress helped as she could and tried to keep our ascent steady, but even one entirely unschooled in the nuances of human expression and the delicate changes in inflection that betray our thoughts and feelings would have had little difficulty in discerning her frustration as I tripped and stumbled my way up rocky screes and along the narrow goat trails that served as paths. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The misty moorland--Beowulf, lines 161-162 ...up steep screes, by scant tracks ❋ Carla (2010)

Foreground montane forest disturbed by clearance for grazing; midground rocky screes inhositable to trees; background the densely forested slopes of Volcan Baru, Panama. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Below is the most precipitous gulf into the head of Wasdale, but across the way is the pyramidal shape of Great Gable with its crimson screes and crags so sensationally sited that the view in the camera viewfinder suggests they are only yards away. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The steep paths of the quarrymen zigzag up, or ramp in diagonals across the gloomy, unstable screes that loom everywhere above the town. ❋ Roger Deakin (2009)

Nine years ago when Bryan Singer skillfully brought the X-Men to movie screes, anything seemed possible for the future of the X-universe; and when he followed it up in 2003 with the sequel defying greatness of X2 the genre entertainment immortality of the Singer X-Men trilogy was assured. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Secret BlackBerry-originated screes swirled in the ethers. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It consisted of loose screes, and was not an ideal promenade for people who had to be careful of their boots. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The path crossed a couple of screes but it was easy to see and follow. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The upper elevations of the ecoregion transition into rock screes, where shallow soils support grasses, cushion-forming plants, and rhododendron scrub among large boulders and craggy rock faces. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The Eastern Himalayan Sub-Alpine Conifer Forests represent the transition from the forested ecoregions of the Himalayas to treeless alpine meadows and boulder-strewn alpine screes. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Thickets are similar to forests in that their distribution is restricted to fire-protected sites such as river valleys, screes and ravines. ❋ Unknown (2008)