How Spurn Head Was Formed?

A spit is an extended stretch of beach material that projects out to sea and is joined to the mainland at one end. Spits are formed where the prevailing wind blows at an angle to the coastline, resulting in longshore drift

Is Spurn Head a headland?

The coastline starts with blowholes, stacks and stumps at Flamborough, and culminates with Spurn head, a very large spit that runs across part of Humber Estuary. This has left a bay where the clay is and a headland jutting out to sea at Flamborough head.

Why is Spurn Head under threat?

Since they were formed in the Ice Age, the clay cliffs from Flamborough Head down to Spurn Point have been vulnerable to erosion under assault from the ferocious North Sea waves. But climate change has accelerated this natural process thanks to rising sea levels and the increasing frequency of extreme weather.