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THE tides of the oceans form the most magnificent dynamical phenomenon of our planet, and yet we are extremely ignorant of even their main characteristics. It is only in the immediate neighbourhood of land that they become directly observable, and it is practically only here that they have hitherto been observed.
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PROUDMAN, J. Ocean Tides. Nature 107, 176–177 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/107176a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/107176a0