Thursday, November 13, 2008

Newly discovered slower moving currents in ocean



Buoys placed in the ocean to measure currents have also turned up new information on another ocean current never before discovered. It turned out that there were alternating strips of water running eastward or westward, a bit like parallel moving sidewalks. It is a 150 km wide bands of very slow moving water that reaches from the ocean floor to the surface pretty much cover all the oceans.

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