It may be of some interest to show the various types 

 of tide found along the U.S. coastline. Figure 6, for the 

 east and Gulf coasts, shows the typical semidaily tide (no 

 large inequality between either the two high waters or the 

 two low waters in a day) on the east coast. The tide is 

 mixed (significant inequality) at Key West and is diurnal 

 at Pensacola. The tides on the west coast (Figure 7) are 



DAr 10 n 



10 19 20 



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Figure 6. Typical tide curves for U.S. east coast 

 and Gulf ports . 



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