Meaning Laurasia
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Laurasia


The northern portion of the late Paleozoic supercontinent called Pangea.
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Laurasia


Paleozoic supercontinent comprising North America and Eurasia, 1931, from German (1928), from Laurentia, geologists' name for the ancient core of North America (see Laurentian) + second element o [..]
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Laurasia


n. A supercontinent that existed from the Jurassic to Early Tertiary after splitting from Pangea; composed of Laurentia, Baltica, Avalonia, (modern North America, Scandinavia, Greenland, Western and C [..]
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Laurasia


Laurasia was the northern supercontinent formed after Pangaea broke up during the Jurassic period. Laurasia included what are now North America, Europe, Asia, Greenland, and Iceland.
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Laurasia


The northern portion of the late Paleozoic supercontinent called Pangea
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Laurasia


the Northern landmass formed by the breakup of the supercontinent Pangaea. Laurasia then fragmented into North America, Europe, and Asia under the influence of plate tectonics.
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Laurasia


The northern portion of the late Paleozoic supercontinent called Pangea
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Laurasia


The name given to the large land mass of the northern hemisphere that consisted of North America, Greenland, Europe and Asia all joined as a single continent.  Laurentia
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The northern of the two large continents that existed in the early Mesozoic.
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