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    Laurasia (redirect from Laurussia)
    terranes, collided in the Caledonian orogeny c. 400 Ma to form Laurussia/Euramerica. Laurussia/Euramerica then collided with Gondwana to form Pangaea. Kazakhstania...
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    Devonian (section Laurussia)
    continent of Siberia to the north, and the medium-sized continent of Laurussia to the east. Major tectonic events include the closure of the Rheic Ocean...
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    region. To its northwest was Laurussia. These two continents slowly collided to form the core of Pangea. To the north of Laurussia lay Siberia and Amuria....
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    Laurentia (section Laurussia)
    (about 420 Ma) in the Caledonian orogeny. This produced the continent of Laurussia. During this time, several small continental fragments merged with other...
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    event caused by Late Paleozoic continental collision between Euramerica (Laurussia) and Gondwana to form the supercontinent of Pangaea. The name Variscan...
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    by the end of the Ordovician to form a landmass called Euramerica or Laurussia, closing the Iapetus Ocean. The collision resulted in the formation of...
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    minor continent of Kazakhstania. A subsequent collision with Euramerica/Laurussia during the Late Carboniferous-Permian formed Pangea. Pangaea split up...
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    doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2003.07.003. Ziegler, P.A. (2012). Evolution of Laurussia: A Study in Late Palaeozoic Plate Tectonics. Springer Science & Business...
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    Wen; Li, Ang (March 2022). "The Serpukhovian–Bashkirian Amalgamation of Laurussia and the Siberian Continent and Implications for Assembly of Pangea". Tectonics...
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    to move towards Laurussia. The collision of Siberia with Laurussia caused the Uralian Orogeny, the collision of Gondwana with Laurussia is called the Variscan...
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    away from Gondwana towards the end of the Silurian and collided with Laurussia towards the end of the Carboniferous during the Variscan orogeny. The...
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    of collision between the large landmasses of Euramerica (also known as Laurussia) and Gondwana during the formation of Pangaea. At its greatest elevation...
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    back-arc basin along the southern margin of the then existing paleocontinent Laurussia. The Rhenohercynian Zone, named for the Rhine River and the Hercynian...
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    Rheic Ocean when the two paleocontinents Gondwana (in the south) and Laurussia (in the north) collided. Most of the Bohemian Massif is often supposed...
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    continental mass of Laurentia, Baltica and Avalonia (called Euramerica, Laurussia or Old Red Continent) and Armorica is called the Rheic Ocean. The paleogeographic...
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  • was an ocean which separated two major paleocontinents, Gondwana and Laurussia (Laurentia-Baltica-Avalonia). One of the principal oceans of the Paleozoic...
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    roughly contemporaneous with the Bretonic phase of the Variscan orogeny of Laurussia, with metamorphic events in southwestern Texas and northern Mexico, and...
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  • fragments rifted from Baltica. As Baltica collided with Laurentia to form Laurussia, island arcs and other microcontinents were accreted to Baltica in the...
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    Madagascar, India, Antarctica, and Australia. North Pangea, also known as Laurussia or Laurasia, corresponds to modern-day North America and the fragmented...
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    formed. The Blair River inlier was sandwiched in between the two when Laurussia was formed 450-360 million years ago, at which time the land was found...
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  • Neoproterozoic Rheic Ocean, the Paleozoic ocean between Gondwana and Laurussia Slide Mountain Ocean, the Mesozoic ocean between the ancient Intermontane...
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    Svalbard. These areas were a part of the paleocontinent of Euramerica (Laurussia). In Britain it is a lithostratigraphic unit (a sequence of rock strata)...
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    near Aqtöbe in the Ural Mountains of Kazakhstan. Gondwana collided with Laurussia and created the Alleghenian orogeny in present-day North America. In northwestern...
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    (eastern Laurussia, modern western Eurasia) based on the earliest recorded fossils. During the Silurian, they spread to Laurentia (western Laurussia, modern...
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    Laurasia and Gondwana drew closer together. The continent Euramerica (or Laurussia) was created in the early Devonian by the collision of Laurentia and Baltica...
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    lobed-finned fishes. As early tetrapods are found on two Devonian continents, Laurussia (Euramerica) and Gondwana, as well as the island of North China, it is...
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    supercontinent Rodinia in most models, and was also part of the later Laurussia, Pangea, and Laurasia supercontinents. Roughly 3 million years ago (Ma)...
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  • the Caledonian orogeny to form the Old Red Sandstone paleocontinent of Laurussia. Another example includes a collision that occurred during the late Pennsylvanian...
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    Tournaisian crisis in conodont diversity: a comparison between Northeast Laurussia and Northeast Siberia". Palaeoworld. 31 (4): 633–645. doi:10.1016/j.palwor...
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  • Ancient ocean which separated two major palaeocontinents, Gondwana and Laurussia Sundance Sea – Inland sea that existed in North America during the mid-...
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