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Interlocking spurs (above) and truncated spurs (below). Interlocking spurs are formed by meandering rivers; truncated spurs are interlocking spurs eroded by glaciation.

Ridge of rock jutting out into a valley or plain. In mountainous areas rivers often flow around interlocking spurs because they are not powerful enough to erode through the spurs. Spurs may be eroded away by large and powerful glaciers to form truncated spurs.



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The half a dozen cabins scattered along the banks of the North Fork, as if by some overflow of that capricious river, had become augmented during a week of fierce excitement by twenty or thirty others, that were huddled together on the narrow gorge of Devil's Spur, or cast up on its steep sides.
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I have now got you under bit and spur, and prefer to keep you as you are at present.
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"I," said his Chief, Exacting and brief, "I'll give him the spur.
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