English Dictionary

Laurentia

name

(geology) The craton that forms the geological core of North America, and that was a separate continent in the past (before merging into Laurasia).

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意味（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).

Laurentia includes most of North America, Scotland and Ireland north of the Caledonian suture, Greenland, Spitzbergen, and the Chukotsk peninsula of eastern Siberia.