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词条 List of geographical tors
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  1. Tors in Great Britain

     Dartmoor  Cornwall  Peak District  Pennines  Scotland  Other areas 

  2. Tors in other regions

     Africa   Germany   India  North America  New Zealand  Spain 

  3. References

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The following list enumerate and expand on notable tors.

Tors in Great Britain

Dartmoor

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Dartmoor represents one of the largest areas of exposed granite in the United Kingdom, covering an area of 368 square miles (954 square kilometres).[1] It is part of a chain of granite stretching through Cornwall, as far as the Isles of Scilly.

Some of the more durable granite survived to form the rocky crowns of Dartmoor tors. One of the best known is at Haytor, on the eastern part of the moor, whose granite is of unusually fine quality and was quarried from the hillside below the tor during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Its stone was used to construct the pillars outside the British Museum in London, and to build London Bridge. The last granite to be quarried there was used to build Exeter War Memorial in 1919.

Ten Tors is an annual weekend hike on Dartmoor.

Cornwall

  • Alex Tor, Bodmin Moor
  • Hawk's Tor, Bodmin Moor. There are two on the moor:
    • One near Lewannick
    • One near Temple
  • Helman Tor, mid–Cornwall
  • Rough Tor, Bodmin Moor
  • Trewortha Tor, Bodmin Moor
  • Showery Tor, Bodmin Moor
  • Cheesewring, Bodmin Moor
  • Brown Willy, Bodmin Moor
  • Carneglos Tor, Bodmin Moor
  • Temple Tor, Bodmin Moor
  • Garrow Tor, Bodmin Moor
  • Kilmar Tor, Bodmin Moor
  • Butter's Tor, Bodmin Moor
  • Carn Brea, Redruth
  • Sharp Tor, Bodmin Moor
  • St Bellarmins Tor, Bodmin Moor
  • Codda Tor, Bodmin Moor
  • Maiden Tor, Bodmin Moor
  • Little Rough Tor, Bodmin Moor
  • Catshole Tor, Bodmin Moor
  • Butter's Tor, Bodmin Moor
  • Carbilly Tor, Bodmin Moor
  • Fox Tor, Bodmin Moor
  • Tolcarne Tor, Bodmin Moor
  • Greymare Rock, Bodmin Moor
  • Hill Tor, Bodmin Moor
  • Tregarrick Tor, Bodmin Moor
  • Bearah Tor, Bodmin Moor
  • Newel Tor, Bodmin Moor
  • Colvannick Tor, Bodmin Moor
  • Carburrow Tor, Bodmin Moor
  • Carkees Tor, Bodmin Moor
  • Carey Tor, Bodmin Moor
  • Trekennick Tor, Bodmin Moor
  • Lanlavery Rock, Bodmin Moor
  • Jubilee Rock, Bodmin Moor

Hills:

  • Kit Hill, Callington
  • Hensbarrow Beacon, St Austell Downs
  • Buttern Hill, Bodmin Moor
  • Candra Hill, Bodmin Moor
  • Carn Brea, Penwith
  • Dinnever Hill, Bodmin Moor
  • Louden Hill, Bodmin Moor
  • Caradon Hill, Bodmin Moor
  • Watch Croft, Penwith
  • Hensbarrow Beacon, St Austell Downs
  • Carnmenellis, between Redruth, Helston and Penryn
  • Hobb's Hill, Bodmin Moor

Peak District

There are many tors in this area, notably in the Dark Peak where the host rock is Millstone Grit:

  • Back Tor, Derwent Edge (538m)
  • Carl Wark, Hathersage Moor
  • Chee Tor, Buxton
  • Dovestone Tor, Derwent Edge (505m)
  • Great Tor, Bamford
  • Higger Tor (384m) and Over Owler Tor (375m)
  • Howshaw Tor overlooking Sheffield
  • Ladybower Tor, Upper Derwent Valley
  • Low Tor, Bradfield Moors
  • The Salt Cellar on Derwent Edge
  • Mam Tor, Edale
  • Whinstone Lee Tor
  • White Tor, Derwent Moors (487m)

In addition there are hills which incorporate 'tor' in their name but yet do not feature the geomorphological feature described in this article. Examples include Mam Tor and Shining Tor.[2]

Pennines

  • Almscliffe Crag west of Harrogate
  • Cow and Calf, Ilkley Moor in West Yorkshire. Made from Millstone Grit.
  • Haslingden Tor. (Musbury Hill) Helmshore Rossendale, Lancashire

Scotland

There are numerous tors developed in the Cairngorm granite in the Scottish Highlands:

  • The Barns of Bynack, tors on Bynack More
  • Ben Avon
  • Beinn a' Bhuird
  • Beinn Mheadhoin

Other areas

  • Glastonbury Tor
  • Stiperstones, Shropshire Hills
  • The Schil, Newton Tors in Northumberland

Tor Bay, one of the sandy beaches near Oxwich Bay on the Gower Peninsula in south Wales, is so-called because the beach is framed by a huge outcrop of Carboniferous Limestone.

Tors in other regions

Africa

  • Kit-Mikayi, Kenya
  • Castle koppies of Central Zimbabwe.[3]

Germany

  • Externsteine in the Teutoburg Forest, North Rhine-Westphalia
  • Greifensteine in the Ore Mountains of Saxony
  • Großer Waldstein in the Fichtelgebirge mountains of Bavaria
  • Heinrichshöhe and Hohneklippen in the Harz mountains of central Germany
  • Wolfenstein in Bavaria

India

Tors are very commonly found in the Telangana and the Rayalaseema regions of Andhra Pradesh

North America

  • Angel Rocks and Granite Tors, Chena River State Recreation Area, Alaska
  • Finger Mountain area, Dalton Highway, Alaska
  • Elephant Rocks in Missouri
  • Apache Leap Formation in Superior, Arizona
  • Texas Canyon in Arizona
  • Wichita Mountains, Oklahoma
  • Pilot Mountain (North Carolina)
  • High Tor, Freeland Mountain (a part of Pocono Mountain), near Freeland, Pennsylvania

New Zealand

  • Schist tors in Central Otago

Spain

  • Tors of the Central Pyrinees.[3]
  • Castle koppies of Traba Massif, Galicia.[3]

References

1. ^Dartmoor National Park Authority website. Retrieved 12 October 2008 {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090805074307/http://www.dartmoor-npa.gov.uk/index/aboutus.htm |date=5 August 2009 }}
2. ^Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 scale Explorer map sheets OL1 Dark Peak area & OL24 White Peak area
3. ^{{cite journal |last=Twidale |first=C.R.|author-link=Charles Rowland Twidale |date=1995 |title=Bornhardts, Boulders and Inselbergs |url= |journal=Cadernos do Laboratorio Xeolóxico de Laxe |volume=20 |issue= |pages=347–380 |doi= |access-date= }}
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