rock-waste

It was, in fact, quite dark under those leaves after the brilliant and unshaded sunlight of the rock-waste.

If I Pay Thee Not In Gold Lackey, Mercedes 1993

With Ware in the lead, the expedition crossed the last of the rock-waste, and plunged into the green gloom of the "forest."

If I Pay Thee Not In Gold Lackey, Mercedes 1993

Denudation leaves naked soil; then gullying cuts down to the bare rock; and meanwhile the rock-waste buries the bottomlands.

State of the Union Address (1790-2001) United States. Presidents.

The granite cliff slowly deposits at its base a rock-waste slope to soften the sudden transition from its perpendicular surface to the level plain at its feet.

Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography Ellen Churchill Semple 1897

Not only do they present fewer obstacles to intercommunication than any other topographic features, but almost always they are deeply covered with the fine rock-waste that forms the chief components of soil.

Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges 1895

In a similar manner, moisture intercepted by the Alps and the Himalayas has not only created the plains of the Po and the Ganges from the rock-waste carried from the slopes, but has also made them exceedingly fertile.

Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges 1895

Denudation leaves naked soil; then gullying cuts down to the bare rock; and meanwhile the rock-waste buries the bottomlands.

State of the Union Address Theodore Roosevelt 1888

The ice-sheet was a huge mill that ground up the rocks in the North probably as fast or faster than the rains and the rank vegetation reduced them in the South, but the floods of water which it finally let loose carried a great deal of the rock-waste into the sea.

Time and Change John Burroughs 1879