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Spit to Exmouth

The beach at Dawlish Warren, is actually the spit formed at the mouth of the Exe estuary in Devon. The spit forms a natural line stretching towards the town of Exmouth on the other bank of the estuary. Spits are a geological feature, formed from the action of tides and waves along the coast. Sand is gradually pushed by the oblique action along the coast, until it reaches the mouth of a river estuary. If not for the flow of the river and the tidal flow within the estuary, the spit would block the river mouth.

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Copyright: Richard Winn
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The beach at Dawlish Warren, is actually the spit formed at the mouth of the Exe estuary in Devon. The spit forms a natural line stretching towards the town of Exmouth on the other bank of the estuary. Spits are a geological feature, formed from the action of tides and waves along the coast. Sand is gradually pushed by the oblique action along the coast, until it reaches the mouth of a river estuary. If not for the flow of the river and the tidal flow within the estuary, the spit would block the river mouth.