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Laurentia

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/lɑˈɹɛn.ʃə/US/lɑˈɹɪn.ʃə//lɒˈɹɛn.ʃə/UK

Etymology

A New Latin formation named after the Saint Lawrence River: Laurentius (“Lawrence”) + -ia (New Latin suffix for creating place names). Or, back-formed from Laurentian (from French laurentien), already in use to describe the Laurentian Mountains and their associated geologic complex (and by extension Canada as a whole).

  1. derived from laurentien

Definitions

  1. The craton that forms the geological core of North America, and that was a separate…

    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.

  2. Canada.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA