Blockfield
![Felsenmeer in Lautertal-Reichenbach (Odenwald)](/Images/godic/202501/01/Blockstrom_Felsenmeer_Odenwald_20065737.jpg")
![Felsenmeer on the Kalmit in the Palatine Forest](/Images/godic/202501/01/Kalmit_Felsenmeer5737.jpg")
![Boulder stream of the Kaser Steinstube near Triftern](/Images/godic/202501/01/Kaser_Steinstube5737.jpg")
![Felsenmeer, painting by Egbert Schaap (1912). Rijksmuseum Amsterdam](/Images/godic/202501/01/'Felsenmeer'_Rijksmuseum_SK-A-26545737.jpeg")
A blockfield or felsenmeer is a surface covered by block-sized angular rocks usually associated with alpine and subpolar climates and periglaciation. Blockfields differ from screes and talus slope in that blockfields do not apparently originate from mass movements.