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  2. Theory of tides - Wikipedia

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    A similar "breathing earth" idea was considered by some Asian thinkers. [6] Plato reportedly believed that the tides were caused by water flowing in and out of undersea caverns. [3] Crates of Mallus attributed the tides to "the counter-movement (ἀντισπασμός) of the sea” and Apollodorus of Corcyra to "the refluxes from the Ocean". [7]

  3. Tide - Wikipedia

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    The water stops rising, reaching a local maximum called high tide. Sea level falls over several hours, revealing the intertidal zone; ebb tide. Oscillating currents produced by tides are known as tidal streams or tidal currents. The moment that the tidal current ceases is called slack water or slack tide. The tide then reverses direction and is ...

  4. King tide - Wikipedia

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    King tides are the highest tides. They are naturally occurring, predictable events. Tides are the movement of water across Earth's surface caused by the combined effects of the gravitational forces exerted by the Moon, Sun, and the rotation of Earth which manifest in the local rise and fall of sea levels.

  5. Tidal range - Wikipedia

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    Tidal range is the difference in height between high tide and low tide. Tides are the rise and fall of sea levels caused by gravitational forces exerted by the Moon and Sun, by Earth's rotation and by centrifugal force caused by Earth's progression around the Earth-Moon barycenter. Tidal range depends on time and location.

  6. Thermohaline circulation - Wikipedia

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    Increasing salinity lowers the freezing point of seawater, so cold liquid brine is formed in inclusions within a honeycomb of ice. The brine progressively melts the ice just beneath it, eventually dripping out of the ice matrix and sinking. This process is known as brine rejection. The resulting Antarctic bottom water sinks and flows north and ...

  7. Mysterious hair ice phenomenon explained - AOL

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    Hair ice looks like incredibly fine, billowing strands massed together. Lasting merely hours or only a few days before melting, its exact cause has been a mystery for nearly 100 years. But not ...

  8. Atmospheric tide - Wikipedia

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    Hence, atmospheric tides are eigenoscillations of Earth's atmosphere with eigenfunctions, called Hough functions, and eigenvalues. The latter define the equivalent depth h n {\displaystyle h_{n}} which couples the latitudinal structure of the tides with their vertical structure.

  9. Everything to Know About Ice Spice - AOL

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    Ice Spice was shocked at first when she got the nickname "The People's Princess," but she's grown to love her comparisons to the late Diana Spencer. "I saw all of my supporters being like, 'She's ...