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Labrador Basin

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Labrador Basin 

a depression of the floor in the northwestern part of the Atlantic Ocean, between the submarine Reykjanes Ridge, the northern part of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, and the underwater slopes of the Labrador peninsula and the island of Greenland. It is more than 3,000 m deep. The floor is composed of a thick layer of sedimentary rock: boulders, rock debris, sand, and silt. There are underwater volcanoes in some places.
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Estimates of flow speeds in the subpolar gyre suggest a transit time of about a decade for a parcel of water that enters the transformation pipeline east of Newfoundland with a temperature of 12 [degrees] to 14 [degrees] C, travels counterclockwise, and emerges from the pipeline in the Labrador Basin at temperatures colder than 4 [degrees] C.
North Atlantic's transformation pipeline chills and redistributes ... by McCartney, Michael S.; Curry, Ruth G.; Bezdek, Hugo F. / Oceanus
In the last stage of this transformation, deep wintertime convection occurs in the Labrador Basin between North America and Greenland where strong westerly winds cool the surface waters, making them denser than the underlying deep water.
Labrador Sea Water carries northern climate signal south: subpolar ... by Curry, Ruth G.; McCartney, Michael S. / Oceanus
 
 
 
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