Editing Mam Tor (section)

==Geography==
[[Image:Mam-tor-from-castleton.jpg|thumb|Mam Tor dominates the skyline west of [[Castleton, Derbyshire|Castleton]]]] 
Mam Tor is on the southern edge of the [[Dark Peak]] (sandstones) and overlooks the [[White Peak]] (limestones), including the dry gorge of [[Winnats Pass]]. It is a dominating link between the eastern end of [[Rushup Edge]] and the western end of the [[Great Ridge]], which together separate the [[Hope Valley, Derbyshire|Hope Valley]] to the south from [[Edale]] to the north, and is a popular ridgewalk.

Mam Tor is made of rocks of [[Carboniferous]] age, approximately 320 million years old. The base of Mam Tor is composed of black [[shale]]s of the [[Bowland Shale Formation]] of [[Serpukhovian]] age overlain by [[Turbidite|turbiditic]] [[sandstone]] of the Mam Tor Sandstone Formation of [[Bashkirian]] age.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Waters |first1=C. N. |last2=Davies |first2=S. J. |date=2006 |chapter=Carboniferous: extensional basins, advancing deltas and coal swamps |editor-last1=Brenchley |editor-first1=P. J. |editor-last2=Rawson |editor-first2=P. F. |title=The Geology of England and Wales |edition=2nd |location=London |publisher=The Geological Society |isbn=1-86239-200-5}}</ref>