"The purpose of this Convention is to provide one uniform and continuous Shoreline (at Mean High Water by the proposed computational method) and one uniform and continuous Chart Datum (at Mean Lower Low Water) for all appropriate National Ocean Survey marine products (nautical charts, bathymetric maps, tide tables, etc.) covering the coasts of the United States, its possessions, and U.N. Trust Territories under its jurisdiction. Also, States with predominantly diurnal or diurnal and mixed tides will be provided one uniform and continuous Mean High Water Line"--Page vii.

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Finally, someone has written a comprehensive, easily readable explanation of the tides on earth that is both simple enough for students and solid enough for their professors. Step by step, by analogy and illustration, Beyond the Moon describes how the cyclical motion of the near solar system is impressed upon the earth's oceans, and how the hydraulics over the continental shelf and the geography of the coastline orchestrate this rhythm into the bewildering variety of tide patterns seen around the globe. This volume demystifies the complexity of the tides by systematically examining its many constituents and demonstrates that: “Nature is, at once, awesome in complexity and beautiful in simplicity.”