Beyond the Moon: A Conversational Common Sense Guide to Understanding the Tides

Beyond the Moon: A Conversational Common Sense Guide to Understanding the Tides
ISBN-10
9812774335
ISBN-13
9789812774330
Series
BEYOND THE MOON
Category
Science
Pages
304
Language
English
Published
2006
Publisher
World Scientific
Author
James Greig McCully

Description

Finally, someone has written a comprehensive, easily readable explanation of the tides on earth that is both simple enough for students and solid enough for their professors. Step by step, by analogy and illustration, Beyond the Moon describes how the cyclical motion of the near solar system is impressed upon the earth's oceans, and how the hydraulics over the continental shelf and the geography of the coastline orchestrate this rhythm into the bewildering variety of tide patterns seen around the globe. This volume demystifies the complexity of the tides by systematically examining its many constituents and demonstrates that: OC Nature is, at once, awesome in complexity and beautiful in simplicity.OCO"

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