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THAT a shore-line should be depressed by the weight of a high tide and rise again when the tide retreats is an idea that has occurred to many. Sir George Darwin has on certain assumptions calculated the form and amount of deformation to be expected under given tidal conditions. In the British Association Report for 1910, p. 49, I showed what had actually been recorded by Mr. W. E. Plummer at the Bidston Observatory, which lies two miles inland from high-water mark. At that place a 10-foot tide resulted in an angular deflection of approximately 0.2. Had the instrument been nearer to the sea a greater change in inclination might have been expected.
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MILNE, J. The Deformation of Rocks under Tidal Load. Nature 87, 44 (1911). https://doi.org/10.1038/087044a0
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