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Definition of Taluses
1. talus [n] - See also: talus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Taluses
Literary usage of Taluses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. San Francisco and the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir: Hearings Held Before the by Committee on Public Lands, United States, Congress, House (1909)
"... for our thoughts will long revert to these days of climbing over rocks and
earthquake taluses, past beetle-browed cliffs and spray-beaten precipices; ..."
2. The Overland Monthly by Bret Harte (1874)
"to it alone more than nine -tenths of all the cliff taluses are due. The largest
of these earthquake taluses measure from 500 to 1000 feet in height, ..."
3. The Yosemite by John Muir (1912)
"EARTHQUAKE STORMS The avalanche taluses, leaning against the walls at intervals
of a mile or two, are among the most striking and interesting of the ..."
4. Glacières; Or, Freezing Caverns by Edwin Swift Balch (1900)
"taluses and broken debris, and in general boulder heaps of all sorts, have
interstices and ... This is most common among the taluses at the base of cliffs, ..."
5. Glacières by Edwin Swift Balch (1900)
"These taluses are one of the strongest links in the chain of evidence proving
... The snow and ice on the surface of the taluses and on the surface of the ..."
6. The Popular Science Monthly (1891)
"The military administration contemplates using it also on the taluses of its
fortifications, where it will have the further advantage of making the works ..."
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