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Tombolo near Karystos, Euboea, Greece Tombolo contrasted with other coastal landforms.. A tombolo is a sandy or shingle isthmus.A tombolo, from the Italian tombolo, meaning 'pillow' or 'cushion', and sometimes translated incorrectly as ayre (an ayre is a shingle beach of any kind), is a deposition landform by which an island becomes attached to the mainland by a narrow piece of land such as a ...
An example of this type of cuspate foreland is the one found at Dungeness along the southern coast of Britain. [6] This cuspate foreland has formed as a result of the merging of SW waves from the English Channel, and waves from the east from the Strait of Dover. [ 4 ]
The theory has two main points that seek to explain the formation of regularly spaced beach cusps. The first is that positive feedback between the morphology of the beach and the flow of the water creates relief patterns. On a flat beach, surface areas will develop with a slightly lower relief than their surroundings.
Los Morrillos de los Cabos Rojos (Spanish for "the little promontories of the red capes") or more commonly known as Los Morrillos de Cabo Rojo, is a cape and tombolo landform located in southwestern Puerto Rico in the municipality of Cabo Rojo. Los Morrillos is an excellent example of a tombolo, or a tied island, with two sand pits.
The sandy isthmus or tombolo "The Neck" connects North and South Bruny Island in Tasmania, Australia. An isthmus (/ ˈ ɪ s m ə s, ˈ ɪ s θ m ə s /; [1] pl.: isthmuses or isthmi) [2] is a narrow piece of land connecting two larger areas across an expanse of water by which they are otherwise separated. [3]
Shut-in – Type of rock formation found in Ozarks streams; Side valley – Valley with a tributary to a larger river; Sinkhole – Geologically-formed topological depression; Sound – A long, relatively wide body of water, connecting two larger bodies of water; Spit – Coastal bar or beach landform deposited by longshore drift
Unlike tombolo bars, a peresyp seldom forms a contiguous strip and usually has one or several channels (called girlo (гирло) in Russian) that connect the liman and the sea. [2] [3] The noun пересыпь is derived from the verb пересыпать, "sprinkle over".
Presqu'ile is a tombolo on the north shore of Lake Ontario in Northumberland County. [1] When proglacial Lake Iroquois drained, leaving the lower Lake Ontario five limestone islands, the largest of which was Presqu'ile Island reduced the speed of currents carrying sand and silt, causing the dynamic sand spit to grow.