Granite Tors

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Tors, Dartmoor

  • Isolated our crop of rock
  • Found on top of hills
  • Looks like a pile of rocks 

Vertical joints are formed in granite rocks

  • When granite is cooled and contracted

Horizontal joints are formed

  • From granite being pressure released when overlying rocks were removed by erosion
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