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It is just weird to call The United States and Canada North America.

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The landmass called North America is actually pretty young, becoming something close to its current incarnation less than 200 million years ago. Before then, the continent was called Laurentia on its journey back and forth across the equator, as it joined and was separated from supercontinents. Over billions of years, whether Laurentia or North America, the continent took its form through many spectacular collisions and massive rifts. Here's a walk through the geologic history of North America.

The central core of present-day North America is its craton, the oldest, thickest part of the continent. While parts of the craton peek out in Greenland and Canada, in the U.S., thick layers of sedimentary rocks keep most of these ancient assemblages under wraps in the center of the continent. The rocks here are more than two billion years old in places, andwere assembled through time as smaller microcontinents and terranes, or fragments of crustal material, crashed together. About 750 million years ago, the craton, then named Laurentia, was part of a supercontinent called Rodinia. After Rodinia fragment, Laurentia drifted almost to the South Pole!

More at https://www.livescience.com/31910-north-america-geology-through-time.html

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CobraGT posted...

The landmass called North America is actually pretty young, becoming something close to its current incarnation less than 200 million years ago. Before then, the continent was called Laurentia on its journey back and forth across the equator, as it joined and was separated from supercontinents.

Who was calling it Laurentia back then?

CobraGT posted...

It is just weird to call The United States and Canada North America.

if someone thinks that North America consists only of the US and Canada, they aren't weird, they are just ignorant about geography and were probably failed by the school system.

DoesntMatter posted...

if someone thinks that North America consists only of the US and Canada, they aren't weird, they are just ignorant about geography and were probably failed by the school system.

This. Wtf.