See:
Atlantean Astronomy
The Astronomy Of Virgin Planet
Religion, Astronomy And Society
Astronomy affects tides:
Atlantean tides vary but are "...always enormous..." (p. 115);
up to seven times Terrestrial;
a bore is like a tsunami;
shores are either cliffs or salt marshes fading into ocean;
estuaries are swamps, shifting between flooded and merely drenched;
seabirds seek stranded fish;
the damp wind smells of decaying kelp;
trees grow above high tide;
grass is amphibious;
there are feathered, flippered seal-equivalents;
a few women -
live in huts on high ground;
hunt and fish in pirogues;
catch rainwater;
are weaker families living where no one else wants;
have a neolithic culture;
earn trade goods as guides.
2 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
A gas giant like Minos would naturally exert vastly stronger tidal pressures on Atlantis than the Moon does on our Earth. Hence the massively destructive tidal bores.
And those women living in areas nobody else wanted would have to depend on the periodical truces allowing women from mutually hostile towns to pass thru to the Doctors and their parthenogenesis machine.
Ad astra! Sean
I think I would have to reread "Virgin Planet" to see why there should be very large tides.
I would expect a moon of a super-Jovian planet to have one side always facing the the planet & one always facing away. So there would not be the 'sloshing' around of ocean water to create what on earth we consider to be tides.
If Atlantis' orbit is elliptical enough libration will result in tidal movement of water. If the other moons of Minos are large enough their gravity will produce tides. I don't recall what Anderson put in as the reason.
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