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Did Otis Redding Get It Right? And Why Should We Care?
Sitting on a dock, undisturbed by the wider world, and looking out at the bay on a
warm and sunny day is a luxury usually only enjoyed during a vacation. If you are
fortunate enough to find yourself on vacation in coastal North Carolina, USA (perhaps on the famous Outer Banks barrier islands; Fig. 3.1) and chose to spend a day
doing exactly that, you would observe the tide roll in and you would watch it roll
away about 6 h later. Over the course of the day sea level would rise with the incoming tide and then fall with the ebbing tide. What comes next is a thought experiment.
Instead of enjoying that single day on the dock, what if you could sit there for a
Fig. 3.1 Map of eastern North Carolina, showing locations of places mentioned in text. The Outer
Banks barrier islands are cut by several inlets
A. C. Kemp and B. P. Horton
Did Otis Redding Get It Right? And Why Should We Care?
Sitting on a dock, undisturbed by the wider world, and looking out at the bay on a
warm and sunny day is a luxury usually only enjoyed during a vacation. If you are
fortunate enough to find yourself on vacation in coastal North Carolina, USA (perhaps on the famous Outer Banks barrier islands; Fig. 3.1) and chose to spend a day
doing exactly that, you would observe the tide roll in and you would watch it roll
away about 6 h later. Over the course of the day sea level would rise with the incoming tide and then fall with the ebbing tide. What comes next is a thought experiment.
Instead of enjoying that single day on the dock, what if you could sit there for a
Fig. 3.1 Map of eastern North Carolina, showing locations of places mentioned in text. The Outer
Banks barrier islands are cut by several inlets
A. C. Kemp and B. P. Horton