Tidal friction

Tidal friction

The first quantitative theory of the tidal evolution of the Earth-Moon system was presented in a series of papers by George Darwin (Darwin (1879), Darwin (1880b), and Darwin (1880a)) in the latter part of the 19th century where he showed that tidal friction can radically change the Moon's motion and the Earth's rotation on geologic time scales. One consequence of this theory is that paleotides had different periods.

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