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Re: Theoretical Question - Height of Eye from Shore
From: Peter Fogg
Date: 2007 Nov 17, 16:10 +1100
Greg R. wrote:
> the
> measured shoreline elevation would depend on the level of the tide at
> the time.
OK. And if the incoming tide was arriving or departing "à la vitesse d'un cheval au galop " (at the speed of a galloping horse) as it is said to do at, for example, Mont St Michel, then that would complicate such calculations even more ...
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From: Peter Fogg
Date: 2007 Nov 17, 16:10 +1100
Greg R. wrote:
> the
> measured shoreline elevation would depend on the level of the tide at
> the time.
OK. And if the incoming tide was arriving or departing "à la vitesse d'un cheval au galop " (at the speed of a galloping horse) as it is said to do at, for example, Mont St Michel, then that would complicate such calculations even more ...
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