Barron Lake


Barron Lake is a lake in southeastern Labrador near Sandwich Bay, Canada. It covers just under and is at an elevation of. The lake is located in the 13H12 NTS zone.
Barron River flows out of the lake and joins with North [River (Sandwich Bay)|North River] about to the north. The Mealy Mountains surround the lake, which is also a part of the Mealy Mountains National Park Reserve.

Geology

The lake is surrounded by late-Labradorian granitoid intrusions : megacrystic/porphyritic granite to granodiorite; early-Labradorian granitoid and associated rocks : 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 : pelitic schist and gneiss, quartz-feldspar psammitic schist and gneiss, and metasedimentary diatexite.