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....

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the Antarctic Peninsula East Antarctic Shield, also known as East Antarctic Craton – Cratonic rock body which makes up most of the continent Antarctica...

protected areas for their undisturbed plant life. East Antarctic craton Polar plateau "Maudlandia Antarctic desert". Terrestrial Ecoregions. World Wildlife...

(TAM) separate East and West Antarctica. The rift system that formed them is caused by a reactivation of crust along the East Antarctic Craton. This rifting...

the entire ice sheet to be lost. East Antarctic Ice Sheet is located directly above the East Antarctic Shield – a craton (stable area of the Earth's crust)...

Craton combined with the crust of the Miller Range of the Transantarctic Mountains. Later, around 1600–1550 Ma, the Coompana Block and its Antarctic extension...

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...

a rift environment located between c. 60 and 70S, fringing the East Antarctic Craton behind the active Panthalassan margin of southern Gondwana, being...

Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean (also known as the Antarctic Ocean), it contains the geographic...

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Shackleton Mountains. The range is at the northwestern edge of the East Antarctic Craton. To the west of the Shackleton Range, the Transantarctic Mountains...

geological structure Trans-European Suture Zone – Boundary between the East European Craton and the orogens of South-Western Europe Vulcan structure – Convergent...

(March 2016). "Contrasted continental rifting via plume-craton interaction: Applications to Central East African Rift". Geoscience Frontiers. 7 (2): 221–236...

). Petrographic and structural characterisitcs of a part of the East Antarctic craton, Queen Maud Land, Antarctica, in Geological Evolution of Antarctica...

the Gondwana supercontinent between two Precambrian cratons, the Kalahari and East Antarctic Cratons, now located in Africa and Antarctica. Its development...

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a rift environment located between c. 60 and 70S, fringing the East Antarctic Craton behind the active Panthalassan margin of southern Gondwana, being...

years. Neoproterozoic tectonic extension along the edge of the East Antarctic Craton between the Skelton and Koettlitz Glaciers resulted in the emplacement...

associated sedimentary rocks that occur within Archaean and Proterozoic cratons between granite and gneiss bodies. The name comes from the green hue imparted...

by the North American Craton (the later paleocontinent of Laurentia), surrounded in the southeast with the East European Craton (the later paleocontinent...

subsequent, protracted high-grade tectonothermal event Much of the East Antarctic craton was formed in the Precambrian by a series of tectonothermal orogenic...

below the Antarctic ice cover. Two cratons in India of equal age, Western Dharwar and Singhbhum, were also part of Ur. Two other Indian cratons, Eastern...

cratons. Kibaran orogeny – Mountain building event in what is now Africa Eburnean orogeny – Mountain building event in what is now West Africa East African...

Somali-Antarctic boundary spreading ridge is known as the Southwest Indian Ridge. The western boundary with the African Plate is diverging to form the East African...

as the combined North Australia Craton-West Australia Craton collided with the East Antarctic-South Australian Craton. The Kepa Kurl Booya Province, including...

in the Yilgarn (West) and Pilbara (North) cratons in today's Western Australia and the Gawler (South) craton which makes up the Eyre Peninsula in South...

1970s and 1980s, Antarctic researchers Grikurov and Elliot debated whether the Insel Orogeny marked the end of craton building in East Antarctica, or whether...

interchangeably with the term craton. However, shield can be used interchangeably with the term basement. The difference is that a craton describes a basement...

Yilgarn Craton and zircon provenance analysis support the hypothesis that collisions between the Pilbara–Yilgarn and Yilgarn–Gawler Cratons assembled...