01:460:101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: North Pacific Gyre, Pacific Ocean, Ocean Gyre
27 Apr 2016
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The great pacific garbage patch is a mass of litter in the north pacific ocean. The patch is comprised of the western garbage patch, located near japan, and the eastern garbage patch, located between the. According to the national geographic, the entire great pacific. Garbage patch is bounded by the north pacific subtropical gyre. An ocean gyre is a system of circular ocean currents formed by the earth"s wind patterns and the forces created by the rotation of the planet. The north pacific subtropical gyre is created by the interaction of the california, north equatorial, These four currents move in a clockwise direction around an area of 7. 7 million square miles. People might be thinking that it is a huge land of plastic bottles and lots of trash, but is simply an accumulation of plastics that do not wear down but break down into smaller and smaller pieces.
