noun
- loose rock debris covering a slope on a mountain or cliff
Usage: geology; plural form of scree
Examples
- The hikers carefully navigated the steep screes below the cliff face.
- Screes formed naturally as frost and weathering broke apart the rock wall.
- The mountain goats moved easily across the unstable screes.
- Heavy rains caused the screes to shift and tumble down the slope.
- Climbers avoided the loose screes and chose a more solid route.
- The geologist studied how screes accumulate at the base of mountains.