What causes the ocean to swell? It's not just the Moon that has a gravitational pull on spring tides. The Earth’s gravitational force pulls the waves down, thus resulting in high and low tides. A ...

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WMBF) - The WMBF First Alert Weather team gave you the First Alert to Spring Tides this week, which could cause some minor flooding for parts of the Grand Strand. But what makes ...

(1) Relationships were sought between species distribution, soil aeration and tidal activity in a well-zoned, ungrazed salt marsh. Redox potential was used as an index of soil aeration and was ...

Eclipses are spectacular reminders of our moon's influence on the Earth, especially the solar variety that will occur on Aug. 21. Eclipses were thought to be forebodings of disastrous events in more ...

"The stronger and higher the tides, the more sediment is transported, producing a thicker layer " she said. "Spring tides produce thick layers of sediment, and neap tides produce thin layers.

Everything has to be somewhere. It's a phrase I preach to my students all the time, because it helps to account for some of the things in marine science that we need to track. Water and sediment are ...

The current healthy girth of Brevard County's beaches will buffer us as we go into Dorian mode, county officials assure. But depending upon the angle and timing of its attack, the powerful hurricane ...

ABSTRACT: Seagrass beds and associated fish assemblages have been the focus of a large number of past studies. However, the influence of small water depth changes due to tides on fish species along ...

A warning has been issued that urges people to avoid coastal locations in Devon ahead of today's spring tide. Visitors to Cornwall have also been told to be vigilant as super spring tides are due to ...

NORFOLK, Va. — Fishing is a popular pastime in southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina. Some days, if you go fishing, it may be a long day with very few catches. Fishing during a full ...

EUGENE, Ore. - Dec. 9, 2016 -- Five million years ago, the Colorado River met the Gulf of California near the present-day desert town of Blythe, California. The evidence, say University of Oregon ...