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craton
The Greenland craton is made up of some of the oldest rocks on the face of the earth.
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The oldest rocks on Earth are found in the North American craton of Canada.
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The Southern Cross Province lies in the central area of the Yilgarn craton.
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These geologic units overlie the craton we want to study and so don't tell us very much.
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The East European craton as a whole was a part of Neoproterozoic-Early PalaeozoicBaltica.
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Moscow Oblast is located in the central part of the East European craton.
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Craton peridotite moisture content is unusually low which leads to much greater strength.
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Craton begged environmental activist Erin Brockovich to get involved.
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Other than perhaps Zealandia, they are not known to contain a craton or fragment of a craton.
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- The part of a continent that is stable and forms the central mass of the continent; typically Precambrian
- A craton (pronunciation: /u02C8kreu026Atu0252n/, /u02C8kru00E6tu0252n/, or /u02C8kreu026Atu0259n/; from Greek: u03BAu03C1u03ACu03C4u03BFu03C2 kratos "strength") is an old and stable part of the continental lithosphere. Having often survived cycles of merging and rifting of continents, cratons are generally found in the interiors of tectonic plates...
- (cratons) The relatively stable portions of continents composed of shield areas and platform sediments; typically, cratons are bounded by tectonically active regions characterized by uplift, faulting and volcanic activity.
- An old portion of the earth's crust which is relatively stable. Most of the rock tends to be granitic in character. The two cratons in South Africa are the Kaapvaal Craton and the Richtersveld Craton. The Karoo Sequence and Cape Fold Belt are the major sequences which do not cover cratons.
- A relatively immobile part of the earth, generally of large size.
- (n) Portions of the earth's crust that have remained stable for at least 1,500 million years.
- Nothing to do with a crater! The Kaapvaal Craton is an immense shield of rocks which has remained relatively undisturbed for thousands of millions of years, which is why we can still see the (eroded) Vredefort Dome structure in the middle. ...
- The ancient, stable interior region of a continent, usually composed of Precambrian rocks [LCOTE]
