Sentences with phrase «wide ocean eddies»
Two years ago this month, an edge - pushing environmental entrepreneur and a company formed by a Native Canadian village set off a wave of international protest by dispersing a pink slurry of 100 tons of iron - rich dust over one of the 60 - mile - wide ocean eddies that routinely drift across the salmon feeding grounds of the Gulf of Alaska.
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Not only do the oceans contain a maze of often shifting current systems, they are filled with turbulence that can be viewed on a scale of just a cubic centimeter to the thousands of swirling eddies a few hundred kilometers wide.