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Laurasia

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Laur·a·sia  (lô-rzh, -sh)
n.
The protocontinent of the Northern Hemisphere, a hypothetical landmass that according to the theory of plate tectonics broke up into North America, Europe, and Asia.
[New Latin Laur(entia), geologic precursor of North America (after the Saint Lawrence River) + (Eur)asia.]
Laurasia  (lô-rzh)
A supercontinent of the Northern Hemisphere made up of the landmasses that currently correspond to North America, Greenland, Europe, and Asia (except India). According to the theory of plate tectonics, Laurasia separated from Pangaea at the end of the Paleozoic Era and broke up into the current continents in the middle of the Mesozoic Era. Compare Gondwanaland.
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Noun1.Laurasia - a hypothetical continent that (according to plate tectonic theory) broke up later into North America and Europe and Asia
northern hemisphere - the hemisphere that is to the north of the equator


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