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toreva block Toreva block (with a visible trail) in White Rock Canyon, Los Alamos County, New Mexico.

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toreva block, landslide product consisting of a very large block of undisturbed material that has been tilted backward toward the parent cliff during movement down a gentle slope. In northeastern Arizona such blocks are thought to have formed during more humid periods of the last glacial advance of the Pleistocene Epoch (2.6 million to 11,700 years ago). Toreva blocks also occur, however, as a simple product of gravitational gliding in the Swiss Alps and in other ranges in humid regions.

This article was most recently revised and updated by Richard Pallardy.