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spit) Longshore drift carries sand and shingle up coastlines. Deposited material gradually builds up over time at headlands forming a new stretch of land called a spit. A spit that extends across a bay is known as a bar. Ridge of sand or shingle projecting from the land into a body of water. It is formed by a combination of longshore drift, tides, river currents, and/or a bend in the coastline. The decrease in wave energy causes more material to be deposited than is transported down the coast, building up a finger of sand that points in the direction of the longshore drift. Deposition in the brackish water behind a spit may result in the formation of a salt marsh. |
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As soon as the play was over, the Director went to the kitchen, where a fine big lamb was slowly turning on the spit. Those moans express in the first place all the aimlessness of your pain, which is so humiliating to your consciousness; the whole legal system of nature on which you spit disdainfully, of course, but from which you suffer all the same while she does not. I assume he followed the land and passed through what is at present known as Margate Roads, groping his careful way along the hidden sandbanks, whose every tail and spit has its beacon or buoy nowadays. |
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