On the moderate and steep slopes of the mountains the bedrock now shows through its thin soil in whole joint blocks. Convex noses, ridges and the colder, steeper ground come out bare and stepped, while turf and trees keep to the hollows, ledges and open joints. Each bare block is its own tilted flat face with 2 to 6 m steps at its edges, and the joints between them fill with grit and turf, drawing dark lines that read from a few hundred meters.
Loose boulders no longer sit on top of the in-place blocks, and montane forest slopes around 2,000 m keep most of their soil. The large landforms under the blocks are still rounded, and that is the next step. New worlds only.
