Editing Labrador Sea (section)

==History==
The Labrador Sea formed upon separation of the [[North American Plate]] and [[Greenland Plate]] that started about 60 million years ago ([[Paleocene]]) and stopped about 40 million years ago.<ref name=r1/> A [[sedimentary basin]], which is now buried under the continental shelves, formed during the [[Cretaceous]].<ref name=r1/> Onset of magmatic [[sea-floor spreading]] was accompanied by volcanic eruptions of [[picrite]]s and [[basalt]]s in the [[Paleocene]] at the Davis Strait and Baffin Bay.<ref name=r1/>

Between about 500 BC and 1300 AD, the southern coast of the sea contained [[Dorset culture|Dorset]], [[Beothuk]], and [[Inuit]] settlements; Dorset tribes were later replaced by [[Thule people]].<ref>''Grønlands forhistorie'', ed. Hans Christian Gulløv, Gyldendal 2005, {{ISBN|87-02-01724-5}}</ref>