Spit... but not the kind you're probably thinking of. A spit is a coastal landform that forms from longshore drift. It can basically be summed up as a long pile of sand that has extended off of a cape. They tend to change frequently depending on ocean currents and this series of images is a great example of that:
February 28, 1993
February 18, 2004
September 1, 2005
October 16, 2005
July 30, 2006
October 3, 2008
October 18, 2009
August 27, 2011
You can find it yourself on Google Earth using these coords: 35°13'00.33"N 75°31'47.45"W
Check back next week to see an EF5 tornado's effects on a small town.
Inspired by this to go and look at Spurn Head, whose history is well documented.
ReplyDeletehttp://goo.gl/maps/7fkw
But Google only has photography back to 2003, and about the most startling thing you can see on there is the tides.
http://web.archive.org/web/20090508134629/http://www.yorkshirehistory.com/RAVENSER/index.htm is very interesting