The global ocean - Fundamentals of the Physical Environment - page 243

Svalbard

Greenland
Sea

Greenland
Ice
Cap

Baffin
Bay

Norwegian
Sea

Iceland

Hudson
Bay

i

8

North
Sea

Labrador
Sea

Newfoundland

New
York

xi mum (

Lisbon

0 1000

km

Figure 11.14 Reconstructed Late Pleistocene and Holocene positions of the North Atlantic Polar Front. Currently-glacierised
areas are shown in white.

Sun

Earth's
orbital path

Last Quarter Full Moon

Neap Tide

Spring Tide

Earth

New Moon First Quarter

Tidal
bulge

Spring Tide

Neap Tide

Figure 11.15 Global tidal bulge and cycles in response to Earth, sun and moon configuration.