At 02:49 PM 1/28/99 -0500, you wrote:
>re:tides
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>>Mach
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>>The tides are created by the gravitational pull of the moon and to a lesser
>>extent the sun. Spring tides are once a month and certain times of the
>>year when the strong pull of the moon is combined with the weaker pull of
>>the sun the spring tides are bigger than usual. The spring tides are
>>usually a couple of days after the full moon. I think there are some very
>>big tides somewhere around Canada and France.
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>Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia/New Brunswick, Canada, has standard 30 meters!
>plus tides.
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>Mike Eckardt
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