Re: Bulges

[Jim Green <JMGreen@sisna.com>]

At 08:14 PM 3/5/97 EST, you wrote:
> Jim
> Since the earth consists of a more or less rigid lithosphere floating on
> a more gushy asthenosphere, and the thickness, mechanical properties, etc
> vary quite a bit from place to place it seems unlikely that the earth
> tides fit the simple model perfectly either.  I think the arguement has to
> be that although from place to place nothing fits the simple model, there
> must be some sort of overall average of all the tidal effects that slows the
> earth and speed up the moon.
Oh, David, I quite agree.  I am just trying to deal with these damn water
bulges. (:-)  But I think is safe to say that the oceans slosh about far
more than the lava in the Earth's innards where I *can* believe the
equilibrium model might be more faithful.  Jim