Cratons

thumb|upright=1.35|Cratons of South America and Africa during the Triassic Period when the two continents were joined as part of the [[Pangea supercontinent]]

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continental area covered by relatively flat or gently tilted, mainly sedimentary strata

Precambrian craton that with four others makes up the modern continent of Africa

continental crustal block in northeast China, Inner Mongolia, the Yellow Sea, and North Korea

archaean craton, possibly part of the Vaalbara supercontinent

old and stable part of the continental lithosphere located in Pilbara, Western Australia

geologic province in South America

ancient continent that contained today's South and Southeast China, Indochina, and parts of Southeast Asia

craton

southern part of the East European Craton or Baltica

one of the five cratons of the Precambrian basement rock of Africa that make up the African Plate

craton tectonic superprovince in Western Australia

core of the Baltica proto-plate and consists of the Fennoscandia, Volgo-Uralia and Sarmatia crustal segments

area in Southern Africa of ancient continental crust

ancient craton in the eastern part of South America with outcrops in Minas Gerais and Bahia, Brazil

continental block in southeastern South America

old and stable part of the continental lithosphere in central Tanzania

Archaean craton in the north-western Canadian Shield, in Northwest Territories and Nunavut

large area of continental crust in the north-central part of Africa

Archean craton which forms the core of the Canadian Shield north of Lake Superior

Arequipa-Antofalla is a basement unit underlying the central Andes in northwestern Argentina, western Bolivia, northern Chile and southern Peru. Geologically, it corresponds to a craton, terrane or block of continental crust. Arequipa-Antofalla collided and amalgamated with the Amazonian craton about 1000 million years ago during the Sunsás orogeny. As a terrane, Arequipa-Antofalla was ribbon-shaped during the Paleozoic, a time when it was bounded in the west by the Iapetus Ocean and in the east by the Puncoviscana Ocean.

part of the Indian Shield in south India