Re: Tide Errasta and Summary

["Paul Camp" <pjcamp@coastal.edu>]

> You've put your finger on the point of confusion. I remember when the
> first tide thread surfaced, a year or so ago, I couldn't understand why
> people were focusing on *water*. To me tide meant "land tide" and water
> was an irrelevant complication, since I grew up in Iowa, attended a
> university in Iowa, and hadn't seen an ocean when I first learned about
> tides. Indeed, in our physics courses, the profs emphasized that when they
> spoke of tides, they *weren't* talking about the rise and fall of water
> along shorelines, or the sloshing of the oceans in their basins, matters
> of some interest to surfers and seamen, but not to geophysicists.
>
> 	-- Donald
>
> .....................................................................
> Dr. Donald E. Simanek                           

Wouldn't that be a corn tide? (Or, every four years, a candidate 
tide.)

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