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Re: double tide cause



----- Original Message -----
From: John S. Denker <jsd@MONMOUTH.COM>
To: <PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu>
Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2001 3:55 PM
Subject: Re: double tide cause


John wrote:

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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Paul O. Johnson