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Interlocking spurs at Ashes Hollow, tributary to the River Severn Interlocking spurs looking up Oxendale Beck, tributary to the River Brathay in Lake District, Cumbria. An interlocking spur, also known as an overlapping spur, is one of any number of projecting ridges that extend alternately from the opposite sides of the wall of a young, V-shaped valley down which a river with a winding course ...
There are gritstone crags and steep escarpments creating dramatic landforms with V-shaped valleys drained by fast-flowing streams. The highest peak is Winter Hill at 456 metres (1,496 ft). [ 3 ] The moors are incised by wooded valleys and cloughs; the largest is in the Roddlesworth valley near Tockholes .
Riverscape of the upper course of the Skógá River ()In the upper course of rivers, channels are narrow and gradients are steep. [5] Vertical erosion is the prominent land-forming process.
The description klinge for small V-shaped valleys may derive from the noise of the streams when in spate (klingen in German means "ring" "clang" or "jingle"). Another interpretation maintains that the little valleys were supposed to be cut by blades ("Klinge" = blade).
It has cognates in the Nordic/Germanic words for valley (dal, tal), and occurs in valley names across Yorkshire and Northern England. [10] Usage here may have been reinforced by Nordic languages during the time of the Danelaw. [11] Most of the dales are named after their river or stream (e.g., Arkengarthdale, formed by Arkle Beck).
At Rocamadour (Lot, France) the traditional village clings to the slope, leaving the valley floor for agriculture. Whereas the valleys near river flats don't have special forms, the shape of alpine valleys depends much more from the former glaciology and of the rock type. Side- or secondary valleys can be V-shaped or U-shaped.
Devil's Dyke is a 100 metre (300') deep V-shaped dry valley on the South Downs in Sussex in southern England, 5 miles (8.0 km) north-west of Brighton.It is managed by the National Trust, and is also part of the Beeding Hill to Newtimber Hill Site of Special Scientific Interest. [1]
A truncated spur is a spur, which is a ridge that descends towards a valley floor or coastline from a higher elevation, that ends in an inverted-V face and was produced by the erosional truncation of the spur by the action of either streams, waves, or glaciers. Truncated spurs can be found within mountain ranges, along the walls of river ...