A small staircase-like landform generally less than 1 m in tread width and riser height, and as long as 300 m, running transversely along slopes. Explanations of terracette formation include animal disturbance, soil creep, solifluction (gelifluction), slumping and rotational slippage, regolith and vegetation control, subsidence, and anthropogenesis or tectonism; see Brandon and Scroder (2011) Zeitschr. 55, 1, 45.