Laurentia

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English

Etymology

Ultimately named after the Saint Lawrence River.

Proper noun

Laurentia

  1. (geology) The craton that forms the geological core of North America, and that was a separate continent in the past (before merging into Laurasia).
    • 2015, Kent C. Condie, Plate Tectonics & Crustal Evolution:
      Laurentia includes most of North America, Scotland and Ireland north of the Caledonian suture, Greenland, Spitzbergen, and the Chukotsk peninsula of eastern Siberia.
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