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Laurasia

Laurasia was the northern half of Pangea; an ancient continental mass in the Northern Hemisphere that included North America, Europe, and Asia.  Its existence was proposed by Alexander Du Toit, a South African geologist, in "Our Wandering Continents" (1937).

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