Great Pacific Garbage Patch
The North Pacific has a plastic trash problem that popularly goes by the name Great Pacific Garbage Patch
But contrary to what it suggests, the problem is spread out over a large area and isn’t easily visible to the named eye.
Mixed semidiurnal tides
The west of North America experiences a strange kind of tide in which there are two high tides and two low tides every day, each at a different height.
Zealandia
The Maori name for this feature is Te Riu-a-Māui.
It’s a piece of almost completely submerged continental crust north of New Zealand, the largest known microcontinent, and over a billion years old.
Ring of Fire
It is a long belt of volcanoes almost completely encircling the Pacific Ocean.
Almost 90% of all earthquakes in the world occur along this belt.
Amasia
In about 300 million years, the movement of tectonic plates will cause the Atlantic Ocean to expand and the Pacific Ocean to close up, creating a new supercontinent.
Amasia is the name the scientific community has proposed for this land
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