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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.

Blunt-ended ridge of rock jutting from the side of a glacial trough, or valley. As a glacier moves down a former river valley it is unable to flow around the interlocking spurs that project from either side, and so it erodes straight through them, shearing away their tips and forming truncated spurs.



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