Cratons are large regions of continental crust that have remained tectonically stable for a prolonged period of time, often a billion years or more. Precambrian cratons are commonly cored by Archaean granite-greenstone terrains and may be partly...

A craton (Greek kratos; "strength") is an old and stable part of the continental crust that has survived the merging and splitting of continents and supercontinents for at least 500 million years. Some are over 2 billion years old. Cratons are generally...

Abstract: The Shiqiao-Pingshang low-grade metasedimentary rocks sporadically crop out in the Sulu ultrahigh-pressure (UHP) belt in east-central China. Major and trace element data indicate that they were deposited in a passive margin basin, probably located at the southern margin of the North China...

Abstract: The four principal lithostratigraphic units (Koodoovale, Manjeri, Reliance and Zeederbergs) of the widespread, late Archaean Bulawayan Supergroup in the Zimbabwe craton record the early to middle-stage development of a major (c. 250 000 km^sup 2^) volcanosedimentary basin. The craton-wide c. 2.70 Ga Manjeri...