Past sunset at Labrador Sea, off the coast of Paamiut, Greenland
Labrador Sea
Coordinates
61°N56°W / 61°N 56°W / 61; -56 (Labrador Sea)
Type
Sea
Basin countries
Canada and Greenland
Max. length
c. 1,000 km (621 mi)
Max. width
c. 900 km (559 mi)
Surface area
841,000 km2 (324,700 sq mi)
Average depth
1,898 m (6,227 ft)
Max. depth
4,316 m (14,160 ft)
References
[1][2]
The Labrador Sea (French: mer du Labrador; Danish: Labradorhavet) is an arm of the North Atlantic Ocean between the Labrador Peninsula and Greenland. The sea is flanked by continental shelves to the southwest, northwest, and northeast. It connects to the north with Baffin Bay through the Davis Strait.[3] It is a marginal sea of the Atlantic.[4][5]
The sea formed upon separation of the North American Plate and Greenland Plate that started about 60 million years ago and stopped about 40 million years ago. It contains one of the world's largest turbidity current channel systems, the Northwest Atlantic Mid-Ocean Channel (NAMOC), that runs for thousands of kilometers along the sea bottom toward the Atlantic Ocean.
The Labrador Sea is a major source of the North Atlantic Deep Water, a cold water mass that flows at great depth along the western edge of the North Atlantic, spreading out to form the largest identifiable water mass in the World Ocean.
Map showing the Labrador Sea according to the IHO definition
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