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    The Kalahari Craton is a craton, an old and stable part of the continental lithosphere, that occupies large portions of South Africa, Botswana, Namibia...
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    Vaalbara (redirect from Grunehogna Craton)
    in Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica, formed the eastern part of the Kalahari Craton for at least a billion years. Grunehogna collided with the rest of...
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  • African Craton (WAC) is one of the five cratons of the Precambrian basement rock of Africa that make up the African Plate, the others being the Kalahari craton...
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    Sudan, and Zambia) Kaapvaal Craton – Archaean craton, possibly part of the Vaalbara supercontinent (South Africa) Kalahari Craton – African geological area...
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  • African Craton East Saharan Meta-craton Congo Craton, central southern Africa Bangweulu Block, Zambia Tanzanian Craton Kalahari Craton Kaapvaal Craton, South...
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    Era c. 2.72 billion years ago (2.72 Ga) by the accretion of Neoarchaean cratons and the formation of new continental crust. It comprised what later became...
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    Africa stabilized into the large Kalahari Craton that came to form part of the supercontinent Rodinia. The Kalahari Craton was near the center of Rodinia...
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    the African desert regions to the north (The Sahara) and to the south (Kalahari). The differences in temperature between the deserts and the Congo Basin...
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  • 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 (together...
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    with the Umkondo LIP on the Kalahari Craton and magmatic event in the Bundelkhand Craton in India, the Amazonian Craton in South America, and the Keweenawan...
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  • basin along the western margin of the Kalahari Craton, and the ocean closed when Río de la Plata collided with Kalahari about 545 Ma along the sinistral Sierra...
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  • movement. The Mwembeshi Shear Zone lies between the Congo craton to the NW and the Kalahari craton to the SE, to the west (in today's orientation) of the...
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    entities reduces as geologists look further back in time. The list includes cratons, supercratons, microcontinents, continents and supercontinents. For the...
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    Distribution of kimberlites in Africa. Cratons: CA-Central African (Kasai), SA-South African (Kalahari), WA-West African; Kimberlites (shown as red dots):...
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  • It is a segment of a broader belt lying between the Congo Craton and the Kalahari Craton, which also includes the Lufilian Arc and the Damaran Belt....
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  • and Saldania belts run along the western and southern edge of the Kalahari Craton. Also the result of the closure of the Adamastor Ocean, the marine...
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    Basin Cape Fold Belt Ellisras Basin Gondwanide orogeny Kaapvaal Craton Kalahari Craton Makhonjwa Mountains Tectonic evolution of the Barberton greenstone...
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    Basin Cape Fold Belt Ellisras Basin Gondwanide orogeny Kaapvaal Craton Kalahari Craton Makhonjwa Mountains Tectonic evolution of the Barberton greenstone...
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    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...
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  • Amazonian Craton and the West African Craton; in the south with the Río de la Plata and São Francisco cratons; in the southwest with the Congo and Kalahari cratons;...
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    basin along the western margin of the Kalahari Craton and the ocean closed when Río de la Plata collided with Kalahari about 545 Ma along the sinistral Sierra...
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  • Insular India – Isolated land mass which became the Indian subcontinent Kalahari Craton – African geological area Kazakhstania – Geological region in Central...
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    Basin Cape Fold Belt Ellisras Basin Gondwanide orogeny Kaapvaal Craton Kalahari Craton Makhonjwa Mountains Tectonic evolution of the Barberton greenstone...
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    Mozambique Belt. The ocean probably separated the Kalahari craton from the combined Congo–Tanzania craton, and separated the Madagascar–India block from...
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    speculation. It might be related to the collision of the Kaapvaal Craton with the Zimbabwe Craton, eventually to become knitted together to form a single continental...
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    which formed when two large pieces of continental crust, the Kalahari craton and the Congo craton, collided. This collision was one of the many that happened...
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    Basin Cape Fold Belt Ellisras Basin Gondwanide orogeny Kaapvaal Craton Kalahari Craton Makhonjwa Mountains Tectonic evolution of the Barberton greenstone...
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    Congo cratons. From 1000 to 600 Ma the super-continent Gondwana was formed and the Pan-African orogeny sutured the Tanzanian and Kalahari cratons. The...
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    Basin Cape Fold Belt Ellisras Basin Gondwanide orogeny Kaapvaal Craton Kalahari Craton Makhonjwa Mountains Tectonic evolution of the Barberton greenstone...
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    Basin Cape Fold Belt Ellisras Basin Gondwanide orogeny Kaapvaal Craton Kalahari Craton Makhonjwa Mountains Tectonic evolution of the Barberton greenstone...
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