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| | Trashed: Across the Pacific Ocean, Plastics, Plastics, Everywhere CHARLES MOORE / Natural History v.112, n.9, Nov03 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) |
 | | The gyre we planned to survey is one of the largest ocean realms on Earth, and one of five major subtropical gyres on the planet. |
 | | The air in the North Pacific subtropical gyre is heated at the equator and rises high into the atmosphere because of its buoyancy in cooler, surrounding air masses. |
 | | The subtropical gyres are also oceanic deserts in fact, many of the world's land-based deserts lie at nearly the same latitudes as the oceanic gyres. |
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