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A spit may be considered a special form of a shoal. As spits grow, the water behind them is sheltered from wind and waves, and a salt marsh is likely to develop. Dungeness Spit in the Strait of Juan de Fuca, on the U.S. Pacific coast. Wave refraction can occur at the end of a spit, carrying sediment around the end to form a hook or recurved ...
Spit – Coastal bar or beach landform deposited by longshore drift; Strait – Naturally formed, narrow, typically navigable waterway that connects two larger bodies of water; Strandflat – Type of landform found in high-latitude areas; Stack – Geological landform consisting of a steep and often vertical column or columns of rock, and stump
Canton Island typifies the isolated coral atolls dotting the Pacific Ocean. The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs, Being the first part of the geology of the voyage of the Beagle, under the command of Capt. Fitzroy, R.N. during the years 1832 to 1836, was published in 1842 as Charles Darwin's first monograph, and set out his theory of the formation of coral reefs and atolls.
Toronto Islands (former spit, now detached), Toronto, Ontario; Leslie Street Spit, man-made spit created as part of new harbour project; Long Point, Ontario; Point Pelee, Ontario on Lake Erie; Rondeau Provincial Park - a crescentric sand spit on Lake Erie; Blackie Spit (east section of the Crescent Beach), South Surrey, British Columbia
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Larvikite rocks shipped from Norway now defend the start of the spit. The spit formed from loose flint pebbles which had been eroded from the cliffs further west. [5] Although originally formed by natural processes, Hurst Spit has been declining in volume, probably since the 1940s when coast protection works in Christchurch Bay first began to interrupt the flow of the shingle towards the spit. [6]
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; Appearance. ... Help. Pages in category "Spits of Antarctica" The following 9 pages are in this ...
Therefore, many spits stretch to the south into the sea and are continuations of the (right) river banks (see table and map). The Chushka and Tuzla spits are located inside the Strait of Kerch; the former spit is formed by the outflow of water from the Azov Sea to the Black Sea and therefore also faces south, whereas the latter is facing north ...