Geologic units containing talus

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Talus

An outward sloping and accumulated heap or mass of rock fragments of any size or shape (usually coarse and angular) derived from and lying at the base of a cliff or very steep, rocky slope, and formed chiefly by gravitational falling, rolling, or sliding.

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Colorado - Oregon

Colorado

Landslide deposits (Phanerozoic | Cenozoic | Quaternary): Locally includes talus, rock-glacier, and thick colluvial deposits

Oregon

Fanglomerate (Holocene? and Pleistocene) (Pleistocene to Holocene): Poorly sorted and poorly stratified alluvial fan debris, slope wash, colluvium, and talus; composed mostly of silt and fragments of basalt, basaltic andesite, and andesite. In places includes small areas of pediment gravels and colluvium

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