Barron Lake | |
Pushpin Map: | Canada Newfoundland and Labrador |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Labrador |
Location: | Southeastern Labrador, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada |
Basin Countries: | Canada |
Barron Lake is a lake in southeastern Labrador near Sandwich Bay, Canada. It covers just under and is at an elevation of .[1] The lake is located in the 13H12 NTS zone.[2]
Barron River flows out of the lake and joins with North River about to the north. The Mealy Mountains surround the lake, which is also a part of the Mealy Mountains National Park Reserve.[3]
The lake is surrounded by late-Labradorian granitoid intrusions (dated 1660-1600 ma): megacrystic/porphyritic granite to granodiorite; early-Labradorian granitoid and associated rocks (dated 1678-1671 ma): foliated to gneissic granite and alkali feldspar granite, foliated to gneissic syenite, alkali feldspar syenite and alkali feldspar granite, and compositionally equivalent well-banded gneiss; and pre-Labradorian supracrustal rocks (dated 1800-1770 ma): pelitic schist and gneiss, quartz-feldspar psammitic schist and gneiss, and metasedimentary diatexite.[4]