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(geology) The craton that forms the geological core of North America, and that was a separate continent in the past (before merging into Laurasia). quotations
Laurentia includes most of North America, Scotland and Ireland north of the Caledonian suture, Greenland, Spitzbergen, and the Chukotsk peninsula of eastern Siberia.
2015, Kent C. Condie, Plate Tectonics & Crustal Evolution
(nonstandard) Canada.