GEMET
General
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Environmental
Thesaurus
marea
Definition

The periodic rise and fall of the water resulting from gravitational interaction between the sun, moon and earth. In each lunar day of 24 hours and 49 minutes there are two high tides and two low tides.

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Other relations
    Wikipedia article:
  • Tide
Scope note

Scope note is not available.

Concept URL: http://www.eionet.europa.eu/gemet/concept/8480