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Title: Shore processes and shoreline development
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Johnson, Douglas Wilson, 1878-1944
Subjects: Shorelines Coasts
Publisher: New York : John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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Fig. 71. — Former island of Big Nahant tied to Little Nahant, and thelatter to the mainland by single tombolo. in the lagoon at Venice, which are visible only at low water,are called tomboli in the Venetian dialect; and Prof. F. C.Ewart of Colgate University states that Petrocchi gives as one * Tomboli si chiamano comunemente per similitudine que monti-celli di rena, che il mare forma a guisa dargini sulla spiaggia, altrimentiCotoni = Costoni da Costa: per es, il mare tempestoso per traversia rade ilfondo e riporta al lido quella rena, e forma i tumoli o i tomboli, e fa deridossi o interramenti alia bocca dArno. Essi tomboli sono la medesima cosache le famose Dune degli Olandesi e Franzesi. (Targioni, Viaggi.) 314 DEVELOPMENT OF THE SHORELINE <
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YOUNG STAGE 315 meaning of the word: a small bank of sand thrown up by thesea. On maps of the Instituto Geografico Militare of Italysuch names as Tombolo della Gianneha and Tombolo diFeniglia are printed along bars connecting islands with themainland. The fact that the singular form tombolo is used,rather than the plural tomboli suggests that the term refersto the bar itself, and not to the series of dunes which may occurupon it. For the reasons outlined above, and for the further reasonthat the term tombolo has been introduced into a number ofEnglish discussions of shorelines, and even into some reportspublished in foreign languages, it seems advisable to adoptGullivers usage, rather than to use the double term connect-ing bar (which might equally well apply to a bay bar connect-ing two headlands), or to invent a new term. A single shortterm is desirable for the form under discussion, and notwith-standing the lack of uniformity and precision in the Italianuse of the term tombolo, its

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