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How are Bars and Tombolos made?

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Tombolo

Explain, using diagrams, how these two landforms are made.

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•Longshore Drift•Change in the direction on the Coastline•Deposition of sediment•Spit builds up•Weak river flow•Extends across to headland on other side.•Extends across to an existing island.•Eg. Looe Bar in Cornwall•Eg. Chesil Beach in Dorset

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