it is twice the size of Texas on the top and 3,000 feet deep.
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∙ 13y agoi think there is
there is not a certain no. of ocean currents that take place inside each ocean gyre.
This implies that the food web structure and primary productivity are uncoupled in the oligotrophic gyres.The North Pacific Gyre collected enough debris to create the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
Because of the plastic gyre the size of Texas in the pacific ocean
North Atlantic Gyre
It is located in an area call the North Pacific Gyre, which is a patch of the North Pacific Ocean that covers thousands of square miles roughly between the United States and Japan and reaching toward Alaska and the Aleutian Islands. It's called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch because the prevailing ocean currents tend to swirl around this patch of ocean, causing all manner of floating debris to be concentrated in the gyre.