| Almanacs, American - 1870 - 684 pages
...the consequence will be that the tides about this time will rise higher and fall lower than they do when the sun and moon are at right angles to each other When this latter condition obtains, their actiun U antagonistic, and we have a tide that never rise*... | |
| 1881 - 308 pages
...consequence will be, that the Tides, about this time, will , rise higher, and fall lower, than they do i when the Sun and Moon are at right angles to each other. When this latter condition obtains, their action is antagonistic, and we have a Tide that never rises... | |
| William Harrison Starkey - 1884 - 300 pages
...concert ; and the consequence will be that the tides about this time will rise higher and fall lower than when the Sun and Moon are at right angles to each other. When the latter condition obtains, their action is antagonistic, and we have a tide that never rises... | |
| Timothy Harley - History - 1885 - 326 pages
...conjunction, or in a straight line ; and the neap tide is caused by the moon being in quadrature, or when the sun and moon are at right angles to each other. They counteract each other's influence, and our tides are therefore low. So much is science ; but the... | |
| Municipal government - 1915 - 692 pages
...are produced, which are then known as spring tides. Again, the two forces tend to minimize each other when the sun and moon are at right angles to each other: at such times the tidal effects are least, which are then known as neap tides. Since the moon revolves... | |
| John Miller Dow Meiklejohn - Geography - 1908 - 708 pages
...than the average at high-water, and falls lower "r* ^*~s than the average at low-water or ebb-tide. When the Sun and Moon are at right angles to each other, or In quadrature, the tide is produced by the difference of their forces, and is consequently SUN AND... | |
| California Coastal Commission - California - 1987 - 388 pages
...average; these tides, called spring tides, occur at new and full moon. At first- and third-quarter moon, when the sun and moon are at right angles to each other with respect to the earth, the sun's effect on the tides partially cancels the effect of the moon;... | |
| Victor Schmidt, William Harbert - Science - 2003 - 448 pages
...Moon is in the same portion of the sky as the Sun or when the Moon is directly opposite to the Sun. When the Sun and Moon are at right angles to each other, the twin tidal bulges will not coincide. When the tidal bulges do coincide, we have extra large tides... | |
| James L. Sumich, John Francis Morrissey - Science - 2004 - 468 pages
...tide, creating several days of extra-high high tides and very-low low tides known as spring tides. One week later, when the sun and moon are at right angles to each other relative to the Earth, the solar tide partially cancels the effects of the lunar tide to produce moderate... | |
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