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a twice-daily apocalypse survived by creatures too stubborn to leave a rock
means A small pocket of seawater left trapped among rocks when the tide goes out, sheltering anemones, crabs, snails, and other creatures until the water returns.
from A plain English compound of "tide" and "pool." "Tide" comes from Old English "tīd," meaning a period or season of time — the same root as "tidings" and the "-tide" in Yuletide — which over centuries narrowed to mean the timed rising and falling of the sea. "Pool" descends from Old English "pōl," a small body of standing water, with cousins in Dutch "poel" and German "Pfuhl." Put together, the word names exactly what it is: the puddle the timekeeping sea leaves behind.
- temperature swing
- can shift 20 degrees between tides
- sea stars
- push their stomachs out to digest prey externally
- anemones
- clone themselves and wage territorial border wars
- limpets
- return to the exact same scar on their rock
- oxygen crash
- trapped water can suffocate inhabitants by nightfall
haystack rock tide pools — cannon beach, oregon, contains sea stars, urchins, and ochre sea stars in rocky formations
point arena tide pools — mendocino county california, known for giant green anemones and purple sea urchins