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A Journey Through Tides
A thorough exploration of the fascinating evolution of tides through the Earth’s history and their impacts on the Earth
Mattias Green (Edited by), Joao C. Duarte (Edited by)
9780323908511, Elsevier Science
Paperback / softback, published 15 September 2022
466 pages, 100 illustrations (80 in full color)
23.5 x 19 x 2.9 cm, 0.72 kg
A Journey Through Tides is a fully comprehensive text on the history of tides. It brings together geology and oceanography and discusses, in detail, new ideas that have emerged about how tectonics and tides interact. In addition, the book provides an overview of Earth’s history, from the perspective of tidal changes, while also highlighting other fascinating phenomena (e.g., solid Earth tides and links between tides and earthquakes). Sections cover an introduction to tides for oceanography students and scientists from other disciplines, cover the Earth’s deep time processes, and include several case studies of specific topics/processes that apply to a earth science disciplines. There are many other processes that drive and modify the tides, hence this book also describes why there is a tide, how it has changed since Earth’s early days, and what consequences the tides, and changes in the tides, have on other parts of the Earth system.
SECTION 1 Fundamentals 1. Tidal Science Before and After Newton 2. Introducing the oceans 3. A brief introduction to tectonics 4. Why is there a tide? SECTION 2 A Tidal Journey Through Time 5. A timeline of Earth’s history 6. Early Earth (Hadean and Archaean – 4600-2500 Ma) 7. Proterozoic (2500-541 Ma) 8. Phanerozoic (541 Ma-present day) 9. Present day: Tides in a changing climate 10. Into the future SECTION 3 Consequences of Living on a Tidal Planet 11. Tides at a coast 12. Tidal rhythmites: their contribution to the characterization of tidal dynamics and environments 13. Tides - Lifting Life in the Ocean 14. Tides, Earthquakes and Volcanic eruptions 15. Solid Earth tides 16. Atmospheric tides – an Earth system signal 17. Tidal drag in exoplanet oceans
Subject Areas: Oceanography [seas RBKC]
