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  2. Tor (rock formation) - Wikipedia

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    By contrast the Scottish Cairngorms, which is the other classic granite tor concentration in Britain, the oldest tors dated are between 200 and 675 thousand years of exposure, with even glacially-modified ones having dates of 100–150,000 years. [9]

  3. List of geographical tors - Wikipedia

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    Some of the more durable granite survived to form the rocky crowns of Dartmoor tors. One of the best known [ citation needed ] is at Haytor ( 50°34′49″N 3°45′19″W  /  50.5802°N 3.7552°W  / 50.5802; -3.7552 ) on the eastern part of the moor, whose granite is of unusually fine quality and was quarried from the hillside below ...

  4. Geology of Dartmoor National Park - Wikipedia

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    Those sedimentary basins relevant to Dartmoor's story are i) the South Devon Basin, the rocks formed within which now stretch around the southern margins of the national park from Padstow via Plymouth to Torquay, ii) the Tavy Basin stretching from Tintagel through Tavistock to Newton Abbot and iii) the Culm Basin which corresponds to the whole of mid Devon.

  5. Dartmoor - Wikipedia

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    Dartmoor includes the largest area of granite in Britain, with about 625 km 2 (241 sq mi) at the surface, though most of it is under superficial peat deposits. The granite (or more specifically adamellite) was intruded at depth as a pluton into the surrounding sedimentary rocks during the Carboniferous period, probably about 309 million years ago. [2]

  6. List of Dartmoor tors and hills - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of Dartmoor tors and hills. Dartmoor is a National Park in South West England that contains many granite outcrops of many different sizes. The main authority (other than the OS map) is "Dartmoor Tors and Rocks" by Ken Ringwood. Birch Tor, with the Warren House Inn in the distance Vixen Tor, with Great Mis Tor beyond

  7. Geology of the Cairngorms National Park - Wikipedia

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    Tors are a common feature of the Cairngorm granite massif, being especially frequent on Ben Avon and Beinn Mheadhoin and impressively high on Bynack More. They represent masses of granite which are less closely jointed than surrounding rock and which have therefore been less susceptible to underground weathering associated with fluid ...

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    It seems Sharon Stone is not the only powerful person in her family.. In PEOPLE's exclusive look at the actress' appearance on the Jan. 28 episode of Finding Your Roots, Stone, 66, is at a loss ...

  9. Granite - Wikipedia

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    Outcrops of granite tend to form tors, domes or bornhardts, and rounded massifs. Granites sometimes occur in circular depressions surrounded by a range of hills, formed by the metamorphic aureole or hornfels .