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  2. Craton - Wikipedia

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    Cratons of South America and Africa during the Triassic Period when the two continents were joined as part of the Pangea supercontinent. A craton (/ ˈ k r eɪ t ɒ n / KRAYT-on, / ˈ k r æ t ɒ n / KRAT-on, or / ˈ k r eɪ t ən / KRAY-tən; [1] [2] [3] from Greek: κράτος kratos "strength") is an old and stable part of the continental lithosphere, which consists of Earth's two topmost ...

  3. West African Craton - Wikipedia

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    The West African Craton (WAC) is one of the five cratons of the Precambrian basement rock of Africa that make up the African Plate, the others being the Kalahari craton, Congo craton, Saharan Metacraton and Tanzania Craton. [1] Cratons themselves are tectonically inactive, but can occur near active margins, [2] with the WAC extending across 14 ...

  4. Geology of South Africa - Wikipedia

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    The geology of South Africa is highly varied including cratons, greenstone belts, large impact craters as well as orogenic belts. The geology of the country is the base for a large mining sector that extracts gold, diamonds, iron and coal from world-class deposits. The geomorphology of South Africa consists of a high plateau rimmed to west ...

  5. Yilgarn Craton - Wikipedia

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    Yilgarn Craton. Basic geological regions of Australia, by age. The large brown region in the lower left of the continent constitutes the Yilgarn Craton. The Yilgarn Craton is a large craton that constitutes a major part of the Western Australian land mass. It is bounded by a mixture of sedimentary basins and Proterozoic fold and thrust belts.

  6. Amazonian Craton - Wikipedia

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    The Amazonian Craton is a geologic province located in South America. It occupies a large portion of the central, north and eastern part of the continent and represents one of Earth's largest cratonic regions. [1] The Guiana Shield and Central Brazil Shield (Guaporé Shield) constitute respectively the northern and southern exhumed parts of the ...

  7. Kaapvaal Craton - Wikipedia

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    The craton is a mixture of early Archean (3.0–3.5 Ga) granite greenstone terranes and older tonalitic gneisses (ca. 3.6–3.7 Ga), intruded by a variety of granitic plutons (3.3–3.0 Ga). Subsequent evolution of the Kaapvaal Craton (3.0–2.7 Ga) is thought to be associated with continent–arc collision that caused an overlaying succession ...

  8. List of shields and cratons - Wikipedia

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    Arabian-Nubian Shield. (Western) Australian Shield. Baltic Shield of Scandinavia and Eastern Europe. Canadian Shield a.k.a. Laurentian Shield. The China-Korean Shield containing the North China Craton. The East Antarctic Shield containing the East Antarctic Craton. Indian Shield.

  9. What to Know About Ryan Routh, Charged in Second Apparent ...

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    A photo posted last year by Ryan Routh on LinkedIn with a caption that said he was in Kyiv “to provide soldiers for the war effort.” Credit - Ryan Wesley Routh, the suspect in the second ...