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Monster Essays - Environment Report: Tidal Power In The Bay of Fundy
Environment Report: Tidal Power In The Bay of Fundy
Professor at St.Lawrence College for Environmental Science.
By
November 22,1996
INTRODUCTION
The Bay of Fundy, which is found off the shores of Nova Scotia, has the
highest tides in the world .
Extraordinary tides occur when the tidal wave length is two to four
times the length of the Bay. By virtue of blind luck or physics, the tide is
amplified into a standing wave, like water sloshing in a bathtub. For a breaking
wave to form, the surging tide must meet an obstacle. When the ocean meets the
river going in the opposite direction, the sea hesitat....
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