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Tourism & Travel | | Spanish term or phrase: tómbolo | La ciudad vieja se extiende sobre una plataforma rocosa situada en la boca de la Bahía y unida a la península por un alargado tómbolo arenoso.
This is about Cádiz (Spain). Any ideas? long sandy something.
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| | a sandy spit | Explanation:
I think this works.
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Note added at 29 mins (2009-01-10 10:58:18 GMT)
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In Spanish it´s a "lengua de tierra" in the sea, perhaps joining a small island to the mainland.
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Note added at 31 mins (2009-01-10 10:59:48 GMT)
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This is an isthmus in more formal language.
I would go for "joined to the peninsula by a long, sandy spit". |
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Kate Major
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Local time: 21:09
| Grading comment This goes well.
Thanks for the help everyone.
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29 mins confidence:   peer agreement (net): +1
28 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +2 a sandy spit
Explanation:
I think this works.
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Note added at 29 mins (2009-01-10 10:58:18 GMT)
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In Spanish it´s a "lengua de tierra" in the sea, perhaps joining a small island to the mainland.
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Note added at 31 mins (2009-01-10 10:59:48 GMT)
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This is an isthmus in more formal language.
I would go for "joined to the peninsula by a long, sandy spit".
| Kate Major
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Thanks for the help everyone. |
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38 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +1 sandbar
Explanation:
I think this fits your context best, given its size. Nice picture available if you google it.
A shoal or sandbar (also called sandbank) is a somewhat linear landform within or extending into a body of water, typically composed of sand, silt or small pebbles. A bar is characteristically long and narrow (linear) and develops where a stream or ocean current promote deposition of granular material, resulting in localized shallowing (shoaling) of the
| ormiston
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| Reference: tombolo
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Un tómbolo es un accidente geográfico sedimentario, como por ejemplo una barra, que forma una estrecha lengua de tierra entre una isla o una gran roca alejada de la costa y tierra firme, o entre dos islas o grandes rocas. Por lo general, se forman debido a que las islas producen la difracción de las olas, depositándose arena y canto rodado en donde las olas se encuentran. Una alza en el nivel del mar puede contribuir en la sedimentación puesto que el material es empujado hacia arriba. Éste es el caso de Chesil Beach, que conecta a la Isla de Pórtland con Dorset, en Inglaterra, y que constituye una cresta de canto rodado ubicada de forma relativamente paralela a la costa, y del Puente de Adán o Puente de Rama, que en la antigüedad unía India con Sri Lanka.
tom·bo·lo (tmb-l)
n. pl. tom·bo·los
A sandbar that connects an island to the mainland or to another island.
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[Italian, from Latin tumulus, mound; see tumulus.]
tombolo Definition
tom·bolo (täm′bə lō′)
noun pl. tombolos -·los′
a bar of sand or other sediment connecting an island to the mainland or another island
Etymology: It < L tumulus, a mound: see tumulus
Tómbolo - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libreUn tómbolo es un accidente geográfico sedimentario, como por ejemplo una barra, que forma una estrecha lengua de tierra entre una isla o una gran roca ...
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| Reference: Chesil beach (after Smartranslators) & tombolo
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Chesil Beach is 18 miles (28 kilometres) long and, on average, 160 metres wide and rises to 12 metres in height. It is a pebble and shingle tombolo connecting Portland to Abbotsbury and then continuing north-westwards to West Bay near Bridport. It is the largest tombolo in the UK.
Oxford Concise Dict: "a bar of sand or shingle joingng an island to the mainland"
Reference: http://www.chesilbeach.org/Chesil
| Rick Larg
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