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Water on Earth  The Science of Tides

3. Where to get more information about tides

Books:

• Introductory:
  • Exploring Ocean Science, 2nd ed., Keith Stowe. Wiley, 1996
  • Introductory Oceanography, 9th ed., Harold V. Thurman, Elizabeth A. Burton.  Prentice Hall, 2000
  • Tides and the Pull of the Moon, Francis E. Wylie.  The Stephen Greene Press, 1979.  (Both science and folklore)
  • The Oceans, Scientific American Presents, Volume 9, Number 3, 1998.  Scientific American, Inc.
• More advanced:
  • Tides: a Scientific History,  David Edgar Cartwright.  New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999
  • Tides, R. Lawrence Swanson.  Albany : New York Sea Grant Institute, 1976

Magazine Article:

• Scientific American April 1972.  Primarily about the effect of tidal forces on slowing and enlarging the moon's orbit

Web sites:

US Geological Survey home page	http://www.usgs.gov/
Get historical tide data	http://www.co-ops.nos.noaa.gov/data_res.htm
Bay of Fundy tides	http://www.valleyweb.com/fundytides/

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