Natural calamities, such as floods, tropical cyclones, tornadoes and tidal bores occur here almost every year - with tragic results.
Then there are more fringe alternatives like tidal power, geothermal energy and even nuclear fusion-any of which could take off with enough luck and money.
Sea level rise, coastal disaster development and more and more low tidal flat inning made it imperative to recognize the significance of coastal protection in development of regional economy.
And so there is deformation, friction effects, tidal effects and so on.
Laterally they interfinger each other and their sedimentary environment be-longs to the barrier island-la goon system of microtidal coastal type(tidal range0-2m).
In the later '70s and 1980s, Jamaican reggae hit Africa like a tidal wave, propelled by the music's message of pan-African uplift and Bob Marley's historic 1980 concert in Harare, Zimbabwe.
It is the world's largest tidal mangrove forest.
The forest - a natural habitat for the endangered animal - acted as a first line of defence against the cyclone's powerful 220km per hour winds and tidal surge.
Sediments carried by the Mississippi river have a pale beige coloration in this image, with distinct margins between plumes that likely mark tidal pulses of river water into the Gulf of Mexico.
The OpenHydro tidal power machines will be used for a 200 megawatt site south of Scotland’s Orkney Islands.
This is due to tidal locking.
From just the entrance, in the southern part of the bay, up to a second slack water area, about midway up the bay, tidal currents are ebbing.
Click through the photo gallery to see the wave and tidal devices that will soon get their try-outs in the cold, turbulent waters off the Scottish coast.
The plant is surrounded by 140 square miles of tidal flats that are being reclaimed from the sea and will soon be covered in new petrochemical plants, power stations and other heavy industry.
Wave patterns at image lower right are most likely caused by tidal effects.
Compared to wind and solar energy, tidal generation has the advantage of predictability.
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