Location of the Greenland-Canada Threshold
The Greenland-Canadian Threshold is an underwater elevation in the northern Atlantic Ocean that connects the underwater bases of the islands of Greenland and Baffin Island ( Canada ).
It stretches along the bottom of the Davis Strait for 75 kilometers. The greatest depth of the threshold is 642 meters. The threshold impedes water exchange between the Atlantic Ocean and the Baffin Sea . As a result of the blockage of water flows, the deep layers of the Baffin Sea are filled with cold water that plunged from the surface in the winter season. [one]
Notes
- ↑ TSB. Soviet encyclopedia. Volume 7. Gogol-Debit. - Moscow: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1972. - S. 284.