1) Coastal and oceanic landform
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A tombolo, from the Italian tombolo, derived from the Latin tumulus, meaning `mound`, and sometimes translated as ayre (Old Norse eyrr, meaning gravel beach), is a deposition landform in which an island is attached to the mainland by a narrow piece of land such as a spit or bar. Once attached, the island is then known as a tied island. Several i.....
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one or more sandbars or spits that connect an island to the mainland. A single tombolo may connect a tied island to the mainland, as at Marblehead, ...
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A beach or bar connecting an island to the mainland.
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A coastal feature that forms when a belt sand and/or gravel is deposited between an island and the mainland. This feature is above sea-level for most of the time.
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A bar or spit linking an island to the mainland.
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(1) Coastal formation of beach material developed by refraction, DIFFRACTION and LONGSHORE DRIFT to form a 'neck' connecting a COAST to an offshore island or BREAKWATER (see also salient). (2) (SMP) A causeway-like ACCRETION SPIT that connects an offshore rock or island to the main shore, or to another island. See Figure 5.
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