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How are spits and tombolo alike?

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How are a sand spit and a tombolo alike?

Sand spits form when elongated sandbars remain in place due to wave action along a shoreline. The spit can remain attached to the shore as an isthmus, or a bar can be separated to form a barrier island. Tombolos can create the same form but in the opposite manner. An island near the shore accumulates sandbars in the separating strait, and can become a "tied island" when the tombolo creates a permanent land bridge.


What is a land extending into the sea beyond the rest of the shoreline?

They're known as spits, if they are merely pieces of land unattached to a second island. However, when they become attached, they form a tombolo.


How do spits develop?

spits are the processes of longshore drift, this is where the waves deposit sand down a beach according to prevailing wind, this happens gradually and this sand can stretch around the headlandand out from the shore, the are behind the spit will become a salt marsh as it will get less water, these spits can then extend and join up two parts of the headland (a bar) or a headlant ot an island (a tombolo).


What is the difference between tombolo and a spit?

a tombolo is a spit that joins the mainland to an island


What is a tom bolo?

What is a Tombolo?


How is a burgh island tombolo formed?

Tombolo's are ridges of sand and shingle which join the mainland to an island. Tombolo's are created through the process of longshore drift. Where there is a change in the shape of the land, a spit forms in the shallow / sheltered water. A tombolo is formed where the spit continues to grow until it reaches an island, forming a link with the mainland


How is burgh island tombolo formed?

Tombolo's are ridges of sand and shingle which join the mainland to an island. Tombolo's are created through the process of longshore drift. Where there is a change in the shape of the land, a spit forms in the shallow / sheltered water. A tombolo is formed where the spit continues to grow until it reaches an island, forming a link with the mainland


What joins island and mainland?

A tombolo


How are spit and trombolo alike?

When you have longshore currents that transport the sand along a beach, they can create a spit where there is a projection along the coast. Spits develop from a wave train that is oblique to the shore causeing the sand to be deposited longitudinally projecting from the protruding point on the shore. They are attached to the shore at one end. Trombolos can occur when currents create a bar from the beach out of a large quantity of oceanic sediment called a stack. A trombolo is somewhat like a large ripple created from the stack accumulation. The are alike in a general sense of oceanic deposits but are very different in that the currents are oblique (tombolo) and more perpindicular (spit).


Which is not a depositional shoreline feature?

tomBOLO liar.


Where is a tombolo located?

it is lake in a strange island


What is it called when a spit joins an island to the mainland?

Tombolo