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Effects of lunar-solar tides in the variations of geophysical fields at the boundary between the Earth’s crust and the atmosphere

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Extraterrestrial forcing of natural environmental processes by gravitational interaction between the Sun, the Moon, and the Earth is considered. Based on the instrumental data, the main periodical components and cycles are identified in the time variations of some geophysical fields at the boundary between the Earth’s crust and the atmosphere. Correlation analysis shows that the lunar-solar tides are the key factor responsible for diurnal and quasi-biweekly variations in the ground electric field, radon emanation, water level in wells, and microseismic vibrations. The tidal influence on the various-scale movements of the blocks of the Earth’s crust is analyzed. In the context of the vertical, lateral, and rotational motion of crustal blocks, which is very important for the platforms, a new, precession-like type of displacements is revealed. These movements develop as a result of the nonsynchronous tidal responses of the block and the adjacent interblock gaps or tectonic structures whose strength and strain properties are different in different directions.

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Original Russian Text © V.V. Adushkin, A.A. Spivak, V.A. Kharlamov, 2012, published in Fizika Zemli, 2012, No. 2, pp. 14–26.

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Adushkin, V.V., Spivak, A.A. & Kharlamov, V.A. Effects of lunar-solar tides in the variations of geophysical fields at the boundary between the Earth’s crust and the atmosphere. Izv., Phys. Solid Earth 48, 104–116 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1069351312010016

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