Definition & Meaning | English word TOMBOLO

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Definitions of TOMBOLO

1. (geography) A spit of sand linking an island to the mainland (or to another island), formed by longshore drift.

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Examples of Using TOMBOLO in a Sentence

• It was located on the shoreward side of the present Kapıdağ Peninsula (the classical Arctonnesus), a tombolo which is said to have originally been an island in the Sea of Marmara only to be connected to the mainland in historic times either by artificial means or an earthquake.
• Coronado is a tied island which is connected to the mainland by a tombolo (a sandy isthmus) called Silver Strand.
• A tombolo is an isthmus that consists of a spit or bar, and a strait is the sea counterpart of an isthmus, a narrow stretch of sea between two landmasses that connects two larger bodies of water.
• A tombolo, from the Italian , meaning 'pillow' or 'cushion', and sometimes translated incorrectly as ayre (an ayre is a shingle beach of any kind), is a deposition landform by which an island becomes attached to the mainland by a narrow piece of land such as a spit or bar.
• The beach is often identified as a tombolo, although research into the geomorphology of the area has revealed that it is in fact a barrier beach which has "rolled" landwards, joining the mainland with the Isle of Portland and giving the appearance of a tombolo.
• The skerries exist as small rocky islands before uplift of adjacent terrain changes the classification of this landform into a tombolo.
• However, this can lead to excessive salient build up, resulting in tombolo formation, which reduces longshore drift shoreward of the breakwaters.
• At Ramsay Bay on the northeast coast, a transgressive dune barrier or tombolo links Cape Sandwich, a granite outlier at the northeastern tip of the island, to the main part of the island.
• Originally an island, Howth Head is connected to the mainland via a narrow strip of land, or tombolo, and forms the northerly bound of the great crescent of Dublin Bay, roughly corresponding to Dalkey Hill and Killiney Hill in the south.
• But when the sea recedes, a natural zigzagging cobblestone causeway (a tombolo), over 10 metres wide, links the island to the mainland.
• The long shingle tombolo of Chesil Beach in Dorset and the raised beach of Portland, Dorset are partly composed of Bunter pebbles.
• Galliera Veneta borders the following municipalities: Cittadella, Loria, Rossano Veneto, San Martino di Lupari, Tombolo.
• San Martino di Lupari borders the following municipalities: Castelfranco Veneto, Castello di Godego, Galliera Veneta, Loreggia, Loria, Rossano Veneto, Santa Giustina in Colle, Tombolo, Villa del Conte.
• Pumphrey reveals a deeper motive for the Captain's behavior – Tombolo did not try to rescue his children from a burning house and now tries to re-earn his self-respect with the lives of his men, especially Sharack whose heroism he is jealous of.
• Longshoreman, anarchist, vagabond, robber and bandit of the "Tenuta del Tombolo" pine forest, from 1934 to 1939 he served for five years in the French Foreign Legion.
• Not much is known about the exact time when the kingdom was established nor about the first queen, and only during the reign of the 6th king, Tonatangka Kopi, have local sources noted about the division of the kingdom into two new kingdoms led by two Kopi's sons: Kingdom of Gowa led by Batara Gowa as its 7th king covering areas of Paccelekang, Pattalasang, Bontomanai Ilau, Bontomanai 'Iraya, Tombolo and Mangasa while the other son, Karaeng Loe ri Sero, led a new kingdom called Tallo which included areas of Saumata, Pannampu, Moncong Loe, and Parang Loe.
• The river flows through the archipelago's largest island of Miquelon-Langlade, which is formed by a thin strip of land called a tombolo that connects the two northern and southern "islands" of Miquelon and Langlade, respectively.

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