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Tide Differences Around the World
- "Many shores, including the U.S. Atlantic Coast, experience two tides a day of about equal heights; these are called semidiurnal (semidaily). A few places in the world have only one high and one low a day. And most of the Pacific and Indian oceans have mixed tides; that is, the heights of high and low waters are unequal, as at Seattle or Ketchikan.(Excerpt from the book, Waves and Beaches, by Willard Boscom, Anchor Books, 1980, pg. 98)
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