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tides  

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  • Tides are the cyclic rising and falling of the earth's seas and oceans caused by the concerted gravitational pull of the sun, moon, and earth itself. On a geologic timescale, there has never been a more profound factor in the shaping of the world's coastlines than the everlasting ebb and flow of the tides. [Source: Encyclopedia of Time: Science, Philosophy, Theology, & Culture; Tides]

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