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Jon The features in the Labrador Sea basin start as continuations of rivers in some areas. THese tributaries plunge off the shelf to depths in the basin of around 2500 to 3,000 meters where they join up and as a single channel that travels more than 2,000 miles traveling in the gently sloping basin around New Foundland ending in the deep south of Nova Scotia. It has a deep wide channel all the way. Some of this basin has only a very shallow slope. These features appear all around the margins of the shelf. Where they connect up to a large drainage basin they continue on through the sedimentary deposits out to the deeper basins. There has been some discussion on them , I can't recall where just now but the stated cause was soil and sand flows cutting them. I don't see how they could continue to flow unless the water was missing from the ocean basin. Kamron