Evolution of the Labrador Sea and its bearing on the early evolution of the North Atlantic

• Published in: Geophysical Journal International
• Main Author: Srivastava, S. P.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 1978
• Subjects: Articles; Arctic; Baffin Bay; Ellesmere Island; Greenland; Nares; Norwegian Sea; Rockall Plateau; Svalbard; Baffin; Labrador Sea; Nares strait; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://gji.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/52/2/313; https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-246X.1978.tb04235.x

Geophysical data collected from 1972 to 1975 during a systematic mapping program of the Labrador Sea have been analysed to investigate its geological history and evolution. The data have been used to establish the location of the ridge axis, the age of the ocean floor, and the direction of movement...