Spur (topography)

A spur in the Tatra Mountains

A spur is a lateral ridge or tongue of land descending from a hill, mountain or main crest of a ridge.^[1][2] It can also be defined as another hill or mountain range which projects in a lateral direction from a main hill or mountain range.^[3]

Examples of spurs include:

• Abbott Spur, which separates the lower ends of Rutgers Glacier and Allison Glacier on the west side of the Royal Society Range in Victoria Land, Antarctica
• Boott Spur, a subpeak of Mount Washington
• Kaweah Peaks Ridge, a spur of the Great Western Divide, a sub-range of California's Sierra Nevada^[4]
• Kelley Spur, four kilometres (two nautical miles) east of Spear Spur on the south side of Dufek Massif in the Pensacola Mountains, Antarctica
• Geneva Spur on Mount Everest
• Sperrin Mountains in Northern Ireland^[5]

See also

• Draw or re-entrant, the low ground between two spurs
• Spur castle

References

1. Valley, Ridge, Gully Terrain Features and Contour Lines Archived 2019-10-30 at the Wayback Machine at geokov.com. Accessed on 28 Feb 2013.
2. Valleys, Ridges and Spurs at www.askaboutireland.ie. Accessed on 28 Feb 2013.
3. "Spur". Your Dictionary. Retrieved 29 June 2019.
4. Roper, Steve (1976). The Climber's Guide to the High Sierra. Sierra Club Books. p. 269. ISBN 0-87156-147-6.
5. Golden Light in the Sperrins, Spurs and Geography at panoramicireland.com. Accessed on 31 Jan 2020.