RE: Pull of the Moon

[Steve White <steve_d_white@hotmail.com>]

I have a question. I read sometime back that the moon has been slowly moving 
further out of orbit and that during the Mesozoic it was actually something 
like a quarter closer to Earth (but don't quote me on that). I was 
interested in this from an artistic view (should we make the moon larger in 
our Mesozoic skies?) but was also curious to the effects a closer moon would 
have had on Earth - would the gravitational pull have been stronger, 
affecting tides more radically in the likes of the Tethys Ocean and 
Cretaceous Inland Seaway?

Steve