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What is the correct term for an area of rotating currents in an ocean?
When ocean currents combine, they create an area of rotating currents called a(n)
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Answer: marine current

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gyre

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In oceanography, a gyre is any large system of circulating ocean currents, particularly those involved with large wind movements. Gyres are caused by the Coriolis effect; planetary vorticity, horizontal friction and vertical friction determine the circulatory patterns from the wind stress curl.