Abstract: The continental Pleistocene Laurentide Ice Sheet (LIS) had far-reaching marine influence in shaping the ocean-floor adjacent to ice margin. The basinwide submarine-canyon and deep-sea channel system of the Northwest Atlantic Mid-Ocean Channel (NAMOC) of the Labrador Sea is the submarine continuation of the drainge system of the LIS on land, forming an interconnected land/sea drainage system 6,000 km long, one of the word’s longest drainage systems of Pleistocene age. The submarine portion forms a dual system, consisting of the mud-dominated N...
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Topics: 
Oceanography
Paleontology
Geomorphology