laurentian : Idioms & Phrases


laurentian highlands

  • noun a large plateau that occupies more than 40% of the land area of Canada; it extends from the Great Lakes northward to the Arctic Ocean
    Canadian Shield; Laurentian Highlands.
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Laurentian period

  • (Geol.), the lower of the two divisions of the Archæan age; called also the Laurentian.
Webster 1913

laurentian plateau

  • noun a large plateau that occupies more than 40% of the land area of Canada; it extends from the Great Lakes northward to the Arctic Ocean
    Canadian Shield; Laurentian Highlands.
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