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Sep 11, 2016 The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Was the Myth We. Or scoped out on Google Earth. As the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a term that’s had great. Games King Kong there. In fact, Earth's largest landfill isn't on land. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch has sometimes been described as a 'trash island,' but that's. 1903a1 Springfield Serial Numbers there. In light of the sheer physical enormity of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and the complexity of its causes, what can we possibility do about it?
Hi jrnmw et al - Now you have touched on one of my favorite topics so I feel the need to respond. You say: 'It's no wonder that we can't find the Great Pacific Garbage Patch because it is mobile, and is not a place nor is it thick enough for the satellite's imaging process to pick it up as a plottable object.' Ordinarily, I'd say that you are absolutely correct. If there were no 'special forces' (whatever that means) operating, one would expect to find the floatable trash scattered throughout the ocean, having been carried willy-nilly from here to yon by the predictable and unpredictable wind and currents. Well, not completely at random but certainly with higher concentrations nearer the Pacific coast, from whence the trash came and continues to come. And with thinner and thinner concentrations as you move further westward from the coast.
But according to the research I have read, there are 'special forces' at work at a particular point(s) in the Pacific, and these occurs where currents move in a large circular pattern. Such a circular movement of water is called a gyre. Supposedly, gyres act to grab and push flotsom into a circular mass. So, if all of this is true, my vision or model of trash in the Pacific is that there are occasional clumps of trash caused by some force such as gryes, and that there are also widespread random-like occurences of individual pieces of trash throughout the rest of the north western Pacific - but still in higher concentrations near the Pacific coast, If that model is correct. The gyre(s) may have concentrated the trash to such a degree that the clump of trash may be photographable. I want to point to one such possible clump of trash,as shown at the following coordinates: lat=848, lon=-157, eye alt=100km.
We are not talking about a piece of trash here, another piece there. Estimated that there are 'six pounds of plastic floating in the North Pacific subtropical gyre for every pound of naturally occurring zooplankton. Mta Valhalla Roleplay Script. ' , and that is by no means trivial!; I also have a list of references to publications about the Pacific trash which I will add here, if any one is interested. Just let me know. Hale Anonymous 01.11.07 2:51.
Hi Everbody - Just as there is a great vortex in the Pacific which has accumulated what is mainly plastic trash (courtesy the shores of Canada and Mexico. But mainly California Washington and Oregon), there is also a great vortex in the Atlantic Ocean, which has accumulated a mass of floating seaweed, mainly of the genus Sargassum. It is known to geographers as the Sargasso Sea. ( Columbus, on his way to discovering America, commented in his log about passing masses of floating seaweed!!) Here is a map showing the likely position of the Sargasso Sea, based on present knowledge of the location of the birthplace of Eels. [image][/image] Compare the location of the Sargasso Sea with the known location of the Pacific Trash Pile and you will see that they are both in the Further information on the Sargasso Sea may be found,, and Just as in the Pacific and now the Atlantic, there are gyres in all major oceans of the world, as shown here. [image] [/image] hale danescombe 07.11.07 16:26.