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Visit more of my exoplanets in my DA "Paleo & Sci Illo" gallery:

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This is Litoria the Tidal World.

It is less massive than the Earth and is covered in a shallow sea. Without active plate tectonics, the crustal surface has mostly low relief. The only permanent dry land is located at the poles. Imagine a global Bay of Fundy.

Litoria has not one but two moon that are in close binary orbit about a common barycenter. This produces very complex tides. The major tidal bulges completely innundate the equatorial regions of the planet twice a day. The animal life is adapted to a global tidal zone. Examples of these tide zone forms can be seen in this illustration:

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art & text (c) John P. Alexander

Description
Visit more of my exoplanets in my DA "Paleo & Sci Illo" gallery:

[link]

This is Litoria the Tidal World.

It is less massive than the Earth and is covered in a shallow sea. Without active plate tectonics, the crustal surface has mostly low relief. The only permanent dry land is located at the poles. Imagine a global Bay of Fundy.

Litoria has not one but two moon that are in close binary orbit about a common barycenter. This produces very complex tides. The major tidal bulges completely innundate the equatorial regions of the planet twice a day. The animal life is adapted to a global tidal zone. Examples of these tide zone forms can be seen in this illustration:

[link]

art & text (c) John P. Alexander