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The tide is the regular rising and falling of the ocean's surface caused by changes in gravitational forces external to the Earth. The main changing gravitational field is due to the Moon while a lesser field is caused by the Sun. Since tides generate currents of conducting fluids within the Earth's magnetic field, they affect in return the magnetic field itself. The loss of rotational energy of the earth, due to friction within the tides, and the gravitational effects caused by tidal deformations of the earth's body, ar ...

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In addition to oceanic tides, there are atmospheric tides as well as terrestrial tides (land tides), affecting the rocky mass of the Earth. Atmospheric tides may be negligible for everyday phenomena, drowned by the much more important effects of weather and the solar thermal tides. However, there is no strict upper limit to the Earth's atmosphere, and the tidal pull increases with the distance from the Earth's centre. Theoretically, the Earth's atmosphere extends beyond the Roche limit of the Earth in the Moon's gravitat ...

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High Tide was a band that was formed in 1969 by Tony Hill (guitar, keyboards, and vocals), Simon House (violin and keyboards), Pete Pavli (bass) and Roger Hadden (drums). The trademark of their first album "Sea Shanties" was the constant battling between the electric guitar of Tony Hill and the electric violin of Simon House. There is hardly a quiet moment on "Sea Shanties", the heaviest tracks being "Futilist's Lament" and the instrumental "Death Warmed Up". Stylistically it is a mix of har ...

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An algal bloom is a relatively rapid increase in the population of (usually) phytoplankton algae in an aquatic system. Typically only one or a few species are involved and the bloom is recognized by discoloration of the water resulting from the high density of pigmented cells. Although there is no officially recognized threshold level, algae are unlikely to be considered to be blooming unless more than 10,000 cells per millilitre occur. Algal bloom concentrations may reach millions of cells per millilitre. C ...

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The Bay of Fundy is a bay located on the Atlantic coast of North America, on the northeast end of the Gulf of Maine between the provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. A small portion of the northwest corner of the bay's coastline fronts the US state of Maine. The name "Fundy" is thought to date back to the 16th century when the Portuguese referred to the bay as "Rio Fundo" or "deep river". The bay was also named Baie François by explorer/cartographer Samuel de Champlain during a 1604 expedition led by Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Monts which resulted ...

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The AGX-04 Gerbera Tetra is a mobile suit in the fictional Gundam Universal Century universe. AGX-04 Gerbera Tetra - History. AGX-04 Gerbera Tetra - Turning the Tides of War or the Federation and the Gundam Development Project. As part of its military reconstruction following the One Year War, the Earth Federation Forces began its Gundam Development Project, the goal to produce advanced new Gundam-series mobile suit prototypes to test new technology and concepts. The intended fo ...

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AGX-04 Gerbera Tetra - Variants AGX-04 Gerbera Tetra - Specifications
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A shipwreck is the remains of a ship after it has sunk or been beached as a result of a crisis at sea. American usage of the word may also mean the destruction or loss of a ship. Shipwrecks are common targets for treasure hunters/divers for the rich content that some wrecks may hold. Shipwrecks also attract interest for historical reasons as well. Shipwreck - Causes. Ships are lost for many reasons, including: failure of the ship's equipment instability navigatio ...

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The chart datum is the level of water that charted depths displayed on nautical charts are measured from. Chart datum is height of water at the lowest spring tide. This is known as the lowest astronomical tide. Lower tides may occur due to meterological effects, such as high pressure systems. Charted depths and drying heights on nautical charts are given relative to chart datum. Tide tables give the height of the tide above chart datum. This makes it possible to calculate the depth of water at a give ...

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Tides and tidal effects happen in general whenever a mass with some volume moves in a gravitational field that is not uniform. This is, they always happen. For example, in one way or the other, all objects moving in space will see some form of tidal forces. By acting on an ideal rigid body, by definition tides will not deform the body. Many bodies which are moving within the solar system, for example, are not rigid but merely balls of gas or fluids, hovering in empty space (Sometimes they have a very thin solid crust). Tidal forces generate ...

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Surat Al-Naba (Arabic: سورة النبأ ) (The Tidings, The Announcement) is the 78th sura of the Qur'an with 40 ayat. ...

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In British English and Indian English usage, a creek is a tidal water channel. Creeks may often dry to a muddy channel with little or no flow at low tide, but often with significant depth of water at high tide. In India the term also applies to the salt water inlets enclosed by mangroves. Creeks are found dispersed all along the Indian coast. Other related archivesBritish English, India, Indian English, mangroves, tidal

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Yellow peril is also a humourous British term for a traffic warden. Yellow Peril (sometimes Yellow Terror) was a phrase that originated in the late 19th century with greater immigration of Chinese and Japanese laborers to various Western countries, notably the United States. The term, a color metaphor for race refers to the skin color of east Asians, and the fear that the mass immigration of Asians threatened white wages, standards of living and indeed, civilization itself. The phrase "yellow peril" was common ...

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Tidal flows are of profound importance in navigation and very significant errors in position will occur if tides are not taken into account. Tidal heights are also very important; for example many rivers and harbours have a shallow "bar" at the entrance which will prevent boats with significant draught from entering at certain states of the tide. Tidal flow can be found by looking at a tidal chart or tidal stream atlas for the area of interest. Tidal charts come in sets, each diagram of the set covering a single hour between on ...

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In most places there is a delay between the phases of the Moon and its effect on the tide. Springs and neaps in the North Sea, for example, are two days behind the new/full Moon and first/third quarter, respectively. The reason for this is that the tide originates in the southern oceans, the only place on the globe where a circumventing wave (as caused by the tidal force of the Moon) can travel unimpeded by land. The resulting effect on the amplitude, or height, of the tide travels across the oceans. It is known that it travels as a s ...

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The maximum water level is called "high tide" or "high water" and the minimum level is "low tide" or "low water". High water occurs as two bulges in the height of the oceans; one bulge faces the moon and the other, on the opposite side of the earth, faces away from the moon. For an explanation see below under Tidal physics. There are two low waters positioned at about 90° of longitude from the high waters. At any given point on the ocean, there are normally two high tides and two low tides each day. The common names of the two high tides ar ...

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Ignoring external forces, the ocean's surface defines a geopotential surface or geoid, where the gravitational force is directly towards the centre of the Earth and there is no net lateral force and hence no flow of water. Now consider the effect of added external, massive bodies such as the Moon and Sun. These massive bodies have strong gravitational fields that diminish with distance in space. It is the spatial differences in these fields that deform the geoid shape. This deformation has a fixed orientation relative to the influenci ...

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Homer, Lenny and Carl all want a donut, but only one is left. Homer thinks up a solution: he places the donut in the reactor core in an attempt to make it huge. Within ten minutes, the power plant is on fire and Homer is fired. After seeing a recruitment advert on TV, Homer decides to join the United States Naval Reserve. Moe, Barney, and Apu join him. Meanwhile, Bart is impressed when Milhouse gets an earring. As earrings become a fad, Bart gets h ...

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The franchise began its history in the South Atlantic League in 1961 as the Tidewater Tides, playing at Lawrence Stadium in Portsmouth. The main newspaper of South Hampton Roads, The Virginian-Pilot, ran a contest to determine the team name. Although the chosen name was "Mariners," the Pilot's editor overruled the contest, deciding he liked the alliteration of "Tidewater Tides." The Tides spent their first year as an "independent" team with no direct major-league affiliation, but became a St. Louis Cardinals affil ...

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Norfolk Tides, Norfolk Tides - Franchise History, Norfolk Tides - External link

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The film is based on the premise that, at the time, U.S. submarine commanders were given the authority to launch missiles on their own initiative if they could not communicate with the President of the United States after the order to arm the missiles was received. At about this time, the procedure was changed so that missiles could only be launched if a direct order from the Commander-in-Chief was received, even if communications had been broken off in the meantime. This matched Russian policy on submarine based missile launches, wh ...

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