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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...
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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...
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November 2007.
Retrieved 2
August 2007.
Cratons of
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September 2021 at the
Wayback Machine.
Cratons of
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January 2019 at...
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these cratons,
especially of the
overlying late
Archean sequences,
suggest that they were once part of the
Vaalbara supercontinent. The
Kaapvaal Craton covers...
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exhumed parts of the
craton.
Between the two
shields lies the
Amazon Rift, a zone of
weakness within the
craton.
Smaller cratons of
Precambrian rocks...
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Pilbara Craton subregions: PIL01 -
Chichester PIL02 -
Fortescue PIL03 -
Hamersley PIL04...
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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...
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cratons were once
sections of
separate continents, but
today they are all
welded together. The
collisions of
these cratons began before ca...
- Kaapvaal, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, and West
African cratons)
makes up the
modern continent of Africa.
These cratons were
formed between about 3.6 and 2.0 billion...
- 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...
