This is physical geography, where a spit is a stretch of beach that juts ... at the rate of one or two metres a year. The mud and the sand and the pebbles are washed out. The waves will carry ...

A narrow sand tidal island called Spurn in Yorkshire was featured in BBC’s Seven Natural Wonders in 2005 - here is some ...

This can be seen with the formation of a spit created when sand and other material is transported along the coast through longshore drift. When the coastline changes direction, the drift can ...