Laurentia

专有名词
中文释义
英 /lɒˈɹɛn.ʃə/|/lɒˈɹɛn.ʃi.ə/    美 /lɑˈɹɛn.ʃə/|/lɑˈɹɛn.ʃi.ə/

英文释义

专有名词
  1. 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. nonstandard

词汇关系

衍生词
Laurasia Laurentian

词源

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).
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