This creates a zig-zag movement of sediment along the beach. Spits are also caused by deposition - they are features that are formed by the process of longshore drift. A spit is an extended ...

Or sometimes a spit stretches right across a bay and rejoins ... CONNOR: Funny to think that some of the sediment from this part of the coast could have been carried all the way along to Forvie ...

Toronto's man-made peninsula, the Leslie Street Spit, is still growing, and will be for the next few decades to come as ...