"You get a big spring tide where the high and low tide are more extreme than normal". A neap tide is when the sun and moon are influencing the oceans separately, so the range between low and high tide is smaller, while a spring or 'king' tide is when the sun and moon work in concert, so they have a combined gravitational impact, and the ranges are therefore bigger.
John Sterling, the publisher of Henry Holt, said that he didn't "see a huge surge in these types of books," calling them "more a case of a small boat being lifted by the big tide of history books".
"The big tide in social gaming is coming, right now," Tomoko Namba, the founder and chief executive of DeNA, said in an interview.
"In early November we had the first really big tide of the season and that was enough to hatch dormant eggs in marshes that could have been there for months," he said.
Much of Florida, including its largest cities, rests on a foundation of limestone, a porous rock, and when the big tides come in the seawater flows underneath the ground and floods into the streets.
How the moon and big tides could be a trigger for big earthquakes.
Some longtails hang out directly in front of the hotel, but the water there is extremely shallow and subject to big tides, so most often, to catch a boat, guests walk 10 minutes over an isthmus to the other side of the island.
Bathys has chosen a jeweled, Swiss-Made quartz movement that not only tells time, but gives both the date and the current moon phase – a real help for surfer chicks waiting for the big tides or astronomers waiting for dark nights.
The Pacific has big tides and on Contadora, low tide is a dramatic sight, tripling the size of beaches and turning rocky shorelines into steep cliffs.
There were big tides the day I was there and he was right out on the sand at the edge of the low tide.
