Tidal regime - range based on spring-tides

Micro-tidal - <2 m

Meso-tidal - 2-4 m

Macro-tidal - >4 m

(Carter 1988).

Caption: High and low tide on an Essex saltmarsh, Tollesbury, Blackwater Estuary. Picture on the right at high tide. Picture on the left at a low point in the tidal cycle nearby. Note the rigging of the yatch masts present in mid foreground in the picture on the right. These can be seen on the distant horizon in the picture of the left. The tidal range at this point in the estuary is approximately 4m.

References

Carter, R.W.G. 1988. Coastal Environments: an Introduction to the Physical, Ecological and Cultural Systems of Coastlines. Academic Press, London, 617 pp.