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The spit will continue out into the sea until water pressure (e.g. from a river) becomes too great to allow the sand to deposit. Vegetation may then start to grow on the spit, and the spit may become stable and often fertile. A spit may be considered a special form of a shoal.
Baymouth bar – low and narrow strip of alluvial land made from sand or pebbles; Beach – Area of loose particles at the edge of the sea or other body of water; Raised beach – Emergent coastal landform; Beach cusps – Shoreline formations made up of various grades of sediment in an arc pattern
Homer Spit, Homer, Alaska. The Homer Spit (Dena'ina: Uzintun) is a geographical landmark located in Homer, Alaska, on the southern tip of the Kenai Peninsula. The spit is a 4.5-mile (7.2 km) long piece of land jutting out into Kachemak Bay. [1] The spit is also home to the Homer Boat Harbor.
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; Sidney Spit, Sidney Island, British Columbia
The Southport Spit (officially known as The Spit) is a spit and neighbourhood within the northern end of Main Beach, City of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is a permanent sand spit that separates the Southport Broadwater from the Pacific Ocean .
The concept of longshore drift or transportation of sediment parallel to the shore by wave action has evolved considerably with time. Early observations related to sediment displacement can be traced back to coastal communities, but the formal scientific understanding of this started crystallizing in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
The southern part of the spit viewed from Arabat Fortress Aerial view of the spit between the Syvash lagoons (left) and Sea of Azov (right). The Arabat Spit (Ukrainian: Арабатська коса; Russian: Арабатская коса; Crimean Tatar: Arabat beli) or Arabat Arrow is a barrier spit that separates the large, shallow, salty Syvash lagoons from the Sea of Azov.
Spit (archaeology), a term for a unit of archaeological excavation; Spit (landform), a section of land that extends into a body of water; Spit or rotisserie, a rotating device used for cooking by roasting over an open fire; Spit, another word for saliva. Spitting, the act of forcibly expelling saliva from the mouth