Beyond The Moon: A Conversational, Common Sense Guide To Understanding The Tides

Finally, someone has written a comprehensive, easily readable explanation of the tides on earth that is both simple enough for students and solid enough for their professors. Step by step, by analogy and illustration, Beyond the Moon describes how the cyclical motion of the near solar system is impressed upon the earth's oceans, and how the hydraulics over the continental shelf and the geography of the coastline orchestrate this rhythm into the bewildering variety of tide patterns seen around the globe. This volume demystifies the complexity of the tides by systematically examining its many constituents and demonstrates that: "Nature is, at once, awesome in complexity and beautiful in simplicity."

Product details

• Authors: James Greig Mccully, James Greig Mccully
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.01.2006
• EAN: 9789812566430
• ISBN: 978-981-256-643-0
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geology; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Natural science; Geophysics, SCIENCE / Physics / Geophysics, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Limnology, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Oceanography, Limnology (inland waters), Oceanography (seas and oceans), Oceanography (seas), Limnology (Freshwater)