Labrador Sea

High school (ages 12+)
Geography

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https://smallwhale.org/articles/labrador-sea

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1. How big is the Labrador Sea?Approximately 840,000 km² (320,000 sq mi)
2. What is the location?North Atlantic Ocean, situated between the Labrador Peninsula (Canada) and Greenland
3. How did the Labrador Sea form?It started about 60 million years ago when the North American and Greenland plates pulled apart. The rifting made a deep ocean basin that is still deep today.
4. Why is the Labrador Sea important for the world’s oceans?It helps create North Atlantic Deep Water, which is a key part of the ocean conveyor belt that moves warm and cold water around the planet. This deep water carries oxygen and affects climate.

Continental Rifting: The process by which continental lithosphere stretches and thins, leading to the formation of new ocean basins.
Marginal Sea: A division of an ocean or a large sea that is partly enclosed by islands, archipelagos, or peninsulas.
Turbidity Current: A density current, caused by variations in the concentration and temperature of water, that flows along the ocean floor.
Thermohaline Circulation: Ocean currents driven by differences in temperature and salinity, forming a global system of water mass transport.