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FOR many years instruments have been installed in underground observatories throughout Europe and elsewhere to observe the tilting of the Earth's surface caused by Earth tides and the loading effects of the ocean and shallow-sea tides. Analysis methods have been developed to permit comparison between the measured data and theoretical tides generated from astronomical data and information concerning Earth rigidity and the distribution of tidal waters. But the agreement between theoretical and observed tides has been poor and is often inconsistent between adjacent observatories, especially in the relatively dense European network.
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KING, G., BILHAM, R. Tidal Tilt Measurement in Europe. Nature 243, 74–75 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1038/243074a0
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