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What stops a wave?

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By 6abc
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Dateline article| David Murphy|

Most of the time, it takes a beach or some other mass of land to stop a wave. But waves can also be interrupted or halted by another wave traveling in a different direction. Larger waves can more easily travel long distances, because they can more easily overcome the influence of smaller waves.

---D.M.

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