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the place the ocean rents out twice a day, then evicts everything living.
means A broad, nearly level expanse of mud or sand along a coast that is covered by water at high tide and exposed at low tide.
from A plain compound of two old workhorses. "Tidal" comes from "tide," Old English "tīd," which once meant simply "time" or "a portion of time" — a cousin of German "Zeit" — before it narrowed to the regular timing of the sea's rise and fall. "Flat" is the Germanic word for level ground, related to Old Norse "flatr." Put together, the term names exactly what it describes: a level place ruled by the clock of the tide.
- breath
- Floods and drains completely every six hours, forever
- carbon vault
- Buries climate-warming carbon faster than rainforests
- bird buffet
- Fuels migrations of millions across entire hemispheres
- quicksand kin
- Soft mud can trap and drown the unwary
- living mud
- A teaspoon holds billions of working microbes
wadden sea — largest tidal flat system in world, spans netherlands germany denmark with 9,000 sq km of exposed mud
bay of fundy — nova scotia canada, has world's highest tidal range at 16 meters between high and low tide
morecambe bay — northwest england, 310 sq km of tidal flats where sands shift rapidly and 23 people died in 2004 cockle picking tragedy