"Gyre" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... with sea ice in Labrador Sea, Denmark Strait, and coastal portions of the Baltic Sea from October to June; clockwise warm-water gyre (broad, circular system of currents) in the northern Atlantic, counterclockwise warm-water gyre in the southern Atlantic; the ocean floor is dominated by the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a rugged north-south centerline for the entire ...
— The 2003 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency
... odours strong From stifling shard and putrid dung, 'Mid caverns large and Cauldrons deep, Vile squats in teeming pewter burn; And shrieking vypers wield a prong Above a monster, quarter'd hung. The Tasmanian Devils keep The sod turn'd in a gyre's urn That no lost soul can undulate: Hence seers and sages, tossed in sin, Rant rubics to each reigning king, Each glowing pyre is fed with oil By afreets reared on bottled hate; Infernal tapers light this Inn As poisoned vapours to us ...
— Betelguese - A Trip Through Hell • Jean Louis de Esque |
