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> You would expect the tides to be somewhat attenuated,
> because the Gulf is fairly small, and connected to
> the open ocean only by rather narrow straits.
Fairly small? It's the fifth largest sea. See
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001773.html
Fairly narrow straits? Both the Florida and Yucatan straits are 100 miles
wide, See
http://www.reliefweb.int/w/map.nsf/wByCLatest/37DD6CB1016FF5B9852569EA006B9C
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