Amazonian Craton Guiana Shield Amazonian Shield São Francisco Craton (Congo Craton) Rio Apa Craton Río de la Plata Craton Arequipa–Antofalla Craton São Luís... 5 KB (516 words) - 17:57, 20 February 2024 |
The Congo Basin (French: Bassin du Congo) is the sedimentary basin of the Congo River. The Congo Basin is located in Central Africa, in a region known... 18 KB (2,163 words) - 14:34, 28 March 2024 |
order of several billion years for many rocks. The country spans the Congo Craton: a stable section of ancient continental crust, deformed and influenced... 12 KB (1,700 words) - 15:46, 14 May 2023 |
Laurentia (redirect from North American craton) Laurentia or the North American Craton is a large continental craton that forms the ancient geological core of North America. Many times in its past, Laurentia... 37 KB (4,455 words) - 22:21, 7 April 2024 |
Africa in the Congo Craton and the São Francisco block in South America. The ancient Paleoproterozoic orogenic belts of the São Francisco Craton contain many... 4 KB (390 words) - 10:23, 11 June 2022 |
from the Kaoko Belt. The West Congo Belt is the product of 999-912 Ma-old rifting along the western margin of the Congo Craton followed by the formation of... 11 KB (1,255 words) - 19:48, 14 September 2023 |
years ago. The cratons are from south to north, the Kalahari Craton, Congo Craton, Tanzania Craton and West African Craton. The cratons were widely separated... 8 KB (869 words) - 23:44, 7 April 2024 |
Owambo Basin (section Congo Craton origin) The Owambo Basin is a sedimentary basin located on the Congo Craton in Southern Africa that extends from southern Angola into Namibia and includes the... 12 KB (1,324 words) - 20:14, 21 November 2023 |
Saharan Metacraton (redirect from Sahara craton) and extent. These include "Nile Craton", "Sahara Congo Craton", "Eastern Saharan Craton" and "Central Saharan Ghost Craton". This last term is because the... 6 KB (731 words) - 12:26, 4 March 2024 |
Congo D.R. is a 500 million year old mountain chain, the Lufilian Arc, which formed when two large pieces of continental crust, the Kalahari craton and... 20 KB (1,518 words) - 02:07, 6 April 2024 |
African Plate, the others being the Kalahari craton, Congo craton, Saharan Metacraton and Tanzania Craton. Cratons themselves are tectonically inactive, but... 23 KB (2,596 words) - 17:32, 9 March 2023 |
intersection of the Congo and the Kalahari cratons. The Damara orogeny involved the suturing of the Congo–São Francisco and Río de la Plata cratons at 580–550 Ma... 5 KB (508 words) - 23:56, 30 August 2023 |
Rodinia Ur Vaalbara Arctica Asiamerica Atlantica Avalonia Baltica Cimmeria Congo craton Euramerica Kalaharia Kazakhstania Laurentia North China Siberia South... 2 KB (150 words) - 22:32, 20 October 2023 |
supercontinent c. 780–750 Ma. It separated the Río de la Plata Craton from the Congo Craton. The inversion of the Adamastor Ocean began about 640 Ma with... 6 KB (611 words) - 03:19, 4 January 2024 |
Ancient string of microcontinents that rifted from Gondwana Congo Craton – Precambrian craton that with four others makes up the modern continent of Africa... 14 KB (4,367 words) - 12:15, 30 October 2023 |
metamorphic and igneous basement rock, formed in the Archean as part of the Congo Craton and the Central African Mobile Zone and covered in laterite, recent sediments... 6 KB (921 words) - 17:21, 11 October 2023 |
northwest and southwest Nigeria and in Cameroon to the north of the Congo Craton. The orogeny in northwest Nigeria was a major tectonic and thermal event... 6 KB (721 words) - 20:14, 21 November 2023 |
East Antarctic Shield (redirect from East Antarctic Craton) The East Antarctic Shield or Craton is a cratonic rock body that covers 10.2 million square kilometers or roughly 73% of the continent of Antarctica. The... 17 KB (2,058 words) - 13:52, 11 December 2023 |
(beneath southern Brazil), the vast Amazonia Craton, and the small São Luis Craton and sections of the Congo Craton which form the basement rock of much of... 17 KB (1,978 words) - 22:06, 8 November 2023 |