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In article <1993Jan6.124737.14935@mailer.cc.fsu.edu> Joe Cain writes:
>
>	Does anyone have a reference for the present best estimates on
>the distance of the Moon from the Earth in geologic time 
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>	I have also read that the Earth day was like 11 hours 2 Ga
>ago, and 22 h at about 400 Ga.
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>	I assume that the tidal recession rate must be strongly
>dependent on a number of factors, including distance. Is there a
>theory that illustrates such changes?
>
This may be off-subject for you, but we have a couple of books on the
earth's rotation in our library:

AUTHOR:  Interdisciplinary Winter Conference on Biological Clocks and Changes
         in the Earth's Rotation , Geophysical and Astronomical Consequences,
         1974, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
TITLE:   Growth rhythms and the history of the earth's rotation, edited by G.D.
         Rosenberg and S.K. Runcorn
            London (etc.), Wiley-Interscience, 1975
            xvi,559p, ill, maps
NOTES:   '... (papers) presented at the Interdisciplinary Winter Conference on
         Biological Clocks and Changes in the Earth's Rotation , Geophysical
         and Astronomical Consequences. The conference was held at the School
         of Physics, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 8-10 January 1974' -
         Preface

                       CLASSMARK:  QB633.I57                              

AUTHOR:  Lambeck, Kurt
TITLE:   The earth's variable rotation, geophysical causes and consequences,
         (by) Kurt Lambeck
            Cambridge (etc.), Cambridge University Press, 1980
            Cambridge monographs on mechanics and applied mathematics
            xi,449p, ill

                       CLASSMARK:  QB633.L35                             

The first deals mostly with palaeological evidence, while the second deals,
if I remember right, with theory.
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