Archaean craton, possibly part of the Vaalbara supercontinent
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The pink figure shows the land of the Kaapvaal Craton in the present day.
The Kaapvaal Craton (centred on the Limpopo Province in South Africa), along with the Pilbara Craton of Western Australia, are the only remaining areas of pristine 3.6–2.5 Ga (billion years ago) crust on Earth. Similarities of rock records from both these cratons, especially of the overlying late Archean sequences, suggest that they were once part of the Vaalbara supercontinent.[1]
^Zegers, T.E., de Wit, M.J., Dann, J. and White, S.H. (1998) "Vaalbara, Earth's oldest assembled continent? A combined, structural, geochronological, and palaeomagnetic test", Terra Nova, 10, 250–259.
The KaapvaalCraton (centred on the Limpopo Province in South Africa), along with the Pilbara Craton of Western Australia, are the only remaining areas...
Archean supercontinent consisting of the KaapvaalCraton (now in eastern South Africa) and the Pilbara Craton (now in north-western Western Australia)...
the KaapvaalCraton in South Africa, the North American Craton (also called the Laurentia Craton), and the Gawler Craton in South Australia. Cratons have...
Earth, along with the KaapvaalCraton in South Africa. The youngest rocks are 1.7 Ga old in the historic area assigned to the Craton. Both locations may...
It consists of two cratons separated by the Limpopo Belt: the larger KaapvaalCraton to the south and the smaller Zimbabwe Craton to the north. The Namaqua...
life: the KaapvaalCraton in Southern Africa and the Pilbara Craton in Western Australia. The Dresser Formation is located in the Pilbara Craton, and contains...
speculation. It might be related to the collision of the KaapvaalCraton with the Zimbabwe Craton, eventually to become knitted together to form a single...
Transvaal Basin is one of three basins of the Transvaal Supergroup on the Kaapvaalcraton. The evolution of this 2.65–2.05 Ga Neoarchaean–Palaeoproterozoic basin...
The Barberton Greenstone Belt is situated on the eastern edge of the KaapvaalCraton in South Africa. It is known for its gold mineralisation and for its...
belonging to the Karoo Supergroup) which is an exposed part of the Kaapvaalcraton, one of the oldest microcontinents which formed on Earth 3.9 billion...
African Craton East Saharan Meta-craton Congo Craton, central southern Africa Bangweulu Block, Zambia Tanzanian Craton Kalahari CratonKaapvaalCraton, South...
South Africa and Zimbabwe, runs E-NE, and joins the KaapvaalCraton to the south with the Zimbabwe Craton to the north. The belt is of high-grade metamorphic...
and to the east the Mozambique Belt. South of the Zimbabwe Craton is the KaapvaalCraton separated from it by the Limpopo Mobile Belt, a zone of deformation...
south-western corner of the Witwatersrand Basin. This basin situated on the KaapvaalCraton, is filled by a 6-kilometre thick succession of sedimentary rocks,...
The Dharwar Craton is an Archean continental crust craton formed between 3.6-2.5 billion years ago (Ga), which is located in southern India and considered...
northeastern part of South Africa is made up by the KaapvaalCraton. To the south and east, the craton is bordered by the Namaqua-Natal belt. In Neoproterozoic...
unit in northern South Africa and southern Botswana, situated on the KaapvaalCraton, roughly between 23 and 29 degrees southern latitude and 22 to 30 degrees...
central part of the Vredefort impact structure and the surrounding KaapvaalCraton. Lowrie, W. (1997). Fundamentals of Geophysics. Cambridge University...
The Congo Craton, covered by the Palaeozoic-to-recent Congo Basin, is an ancient Precambrian craton that with four others (the Kaapvaal, Zimbabwe, Tanzania...
Dominion Group. The Dominion Group fills failed rift basins within the KaapvaalCraton in modern South Africa. A terrestrial setting for the accumulation...
country entirely underlain by the KaapvaalCraton, one of the oldest pieces of stable continental crust and the only craton regarded as "pristine" by geologists...
lithosphere are believed to remain from this era: KaapvaalCraton (in contemporary South Africa) and Pilbara Craton (in contemporary Western Australia) to search...
Victoria Microplate Cratons and shields Arabian-Nubian Shield Congo CratonKaapvaalCraton Kalahari Craton Saharan Metacraton Tanzania Craton Tuareg Shield...
cycle from the Transvaal Supergroup along the western margin of the KaapvaalCraton, South Africa". Precambrian Research. 169 (1–4): 15–27. Bibcode:2009PreR...
Sudan, and Zambia) KaapvaalCraton – Archaean craton, possibly part of the Vaalbara supercontinent (South Africa) Kalahari Craton – African geological...
from the Ongeluk magmatic event, whose remnants are preserved on the KaapvaalCraton, within its South African part. The Ongeluk LIP was defined in 2017...
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