Davis Strait
Davis Strait lies between mid-Western
Greenland and the
Canadian island of
Baffin Island. Water depths in Davis Strait, at around 1-2
kilometres, are substantially less than in
Labrador Sea to the south and
Baffin Bay to the north. Davis Strait is underlain by complex geological features of buried basins and ridges, probably formed by strike-slip faulting during
Palaeogene times about 45-62 million years ago. The strike-slip faulting transferred plate-tectonic motions in Labrador Sea to Baffin Bay.