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A hypothetical continent that (according to plate tectonic theory) broke up later into North America and Europe and Asia
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laurasia
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Laurasia ( or ) was the more northern of two supercontinents (the other being Gondwana ) that formed part of the Pangaea supercontinent around ( Mya ). It separated from Gondwana (beginning in the late Triassic period ) during the breakup of Pangaea, drifting ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1931; see Laurentian .
Usage examples of laurasia.
Earth, unfamiliar at first, until Pangaea splits into Laurasia and Gondwanaland, then these into smaller plates, some of them recognizably rough outlines of the modern continents.
It leaves the southern pole, it cracks across at the equator into twin continents, Laurasia and Gondwana.
Although textbooks give confident-looking representations of ancient landmasses with names like Laurasia, Gondwana, Rodinia, and Pangaea, these are sometimes based on conclusions that don’t altogether hold up.