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PALEOGEOGRAPHY | Laurasia |
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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).