Re: Tides on inland waters in Glorantha?

From: samclau_at_aAFrKGj_SYWSaKh2_w8_ZY82Td_34k-LMTM6dSCt2gvvsP-o6b6dtQ1g2id7hYClnJAN
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 14:37:23 -0300

I figured as well that it would be a pretty impressive tunnel when this was first mentioned, with pretty impressive flows of water. Good to see the figures though :)
Sam.

> Mensagem Original:
> Data: 04:15:39 30/03/2007
> De: John Galloway <yuskim1_at_ncUrYZyNmCqTj17QAmmkWyG_dO5a6aRsob1eOWw7zzjzXyTFCadr6qKGIsAUyTI-ua7fqd0FzTCx21jI_A.yahoo.invalid>
> Assunto: Re: Tides on inland waters in Glorantha?

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>> The White Sea is actually connected by a very long tunnel under the
>> ice of the Glacier.
>> Thus is has tides.
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> To raise or lower a body of water the size of lake Superior (31,820
> square miles) by 3 feet via a (submerged) tunnel would require that
> nearly 20 cubic miles of water flow through it in roughly 6 hours. If,
> say, the (average) speed of the flow was 100 miles per hour and if the
> tunnel had a circular cross-section it would have to be over 1000 feet
> across!
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> So either the White Sea tunnel is a gigantic structure filled with
> water flowing at deadly speeds or (as seems more likely) tides in
> Glorantha are not determined by the (real world) physics of fluild
> displacement. But if the latter is actually the case then (and this
> is the point of my post) ...
>
> Why is the presence of White Sea tides dependent on the existance of
> a tunnel at all?
>
> Thanks,
> - John
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