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- cratons are generally found in the interiors of tectonic plates; the exceptions occur where geologically recent rifting events have separated cratons...
- November 2007. Retrieved 2 August 2007. Cratons of India Archived 12 September 2021 at the Wayback Machine. Cratons of India Archived 16 January 2019 at...
- Cheney derived the name from the last four letters of each craton's name. The two cratons consist of continental crust dating from 2.7 to 3.6 Ga, which...
- Archaean cratons, including the Siberian Craton, with its Anabar/Aldan shields in Siberia, and the Slave, Wyoming, Superior, and North Atlantic cratons in North...
- It consists of two cratons separated by the Limpopo Belt: the larger Kaapvaal Craton to the south and the smaller Zimbabwe Craton to the north. The Namaqua...
- and Hearne-Ray cratons were once sections of separate continents, but today they are all welded together. The collisions of these cratons began before ca...
- Yilgarn craton in Western Australia, and may be evidence for continental crust forming in the Hadean Eon. However, it is suggested that these two cratons have...
- A craton is an ancient part of the Earth's continental crust which has been more or less stable since Precambrian times. Cratons whose ancient rocks are...
- The Rae Craton is an Archean craton located in northern Canada, north of the Superior Craton. The Ungava Peninsula, situated on the northeast portion of...
- Laurentia or the North American craton is a large continental craton that forms the ancient geological core of North America. Many times in its past, Laurentia...