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• Tidal power — Tidal power, sometimes called tidal energy, is a form of hydropower that converts the energy of tides into electricity or other useful forms of power.Although not yet widely used, tidal power has potential for future electricity generation. Tides …   Wikipedia

• Tidal Basin (District of Columbia) — The Tidal Basin is a partially man made inlet adjacent to the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. It is part of West Potomac Park and is surrounded by the Jefferson Memorial and the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial. The basin covers an area of… …   Wikipedia

• Tidal resonance — In oceanography, a tidal resonance occurs when the tide excites one of the resonant modes of the ocean. The effect is most striking when a continental shelf is about a quarter wavelength wide. Then an incident tidal wave can be reinforced by… …   Wikipedia

• Channel Islands — This article is about the British Crown dependencies. For the islands off Southern California, see Channel Islands of California. For the French Channel Islands, see Chausey. The Channel Islands, located between the south coast of the United… …   Wikipedia

• Tidal bore — Aegir redirects here. For the mythological figure, see Ægir. For the moon of Saturn, see Aegir (moon). The tidal bore in Upper Cook Inlet, Alaska A tidal bore (or simply bore in context, or also aegir, eagre, or eygre) is a tidal phenomenon in… …   Wikipedia

• Channel (geography) — This article is about a geographical feature. For other uses, see channel. Wooden pilings mark the navigable channel for vessels entering Lake George from the St. Johns River in Florida …   Wikipedia

• tidal power — Electricity produced by turbines operated by tide flow. Large amounts of power are potentially available from the tides in certain locations, such as Canada s Bay of Fundy, where the tidal range reaches more than 50 ft (15 m), but this potential… …   Universalium

• Tidal range — The tidal range is the vertical difference between the highest high tide and the lowest low tide. In other words, it is the difference in height between high and low tides. The most extreme tidal range will occur around the time of the full or… …   Wikipedia

• tidal inlet —    1) Any inlet through which water alternately floods landward with the rising tide and ebbs seaward with the falling tide.    Compare: inlet, relict tidal inlet.    GG    2) [ relict ]    A channel remnant of a former tidal inlet. The channel… …   Glossary of landform and geologic terms

• Tidal island — A tidal island is a piece of land that is connected to the mainland by a natural or man made causeway that is exposed at low tide and submerged at high tide. Because of the mystique surrounding tidal islands many of them have been sites of… …   Wikipedia

• tidal gut — 1) a narrow channel 2) an elongated rock pool open to the sea at one end …   Dictionary of ichthyology