Geological map of north-western Canada. Slave Craton is marked with A.Palaeomap of North American and Scandinavian cratons, basement rocks, and orogenic belts (ages in billions of years)
The Slave Craton is an Archaean craton in the north-western Canadian Shield, in Northwest Territories and Nunavut. The Slave Craton includes the 4.03 Ga-old Acasta Gneiss which is one of the oldest dated rocks on Earth.[1][2]
Covering about 300,000 km2 (120,000 sq mi), it is a relatively small but well-exposed craton dominated by ~2.73–2.63 Ga (billion years-old) greenstones and turbidite sequences and ~2.72–2.58 Ga plutonic rocks, with large parts of the craton underlain by older gneiss and granitoid units.[3]
The Slave Craton is one of the blocks that compose the Precambrian core of North America, also known as the palaeocontinent Laurentia.[4]
The exposed portion of the craton, called the Slave Province, comprises 172,500 km2 (66,600 sq mi) and has an elliptical shape that stretches 680 km (420 mi) NNE from Gros Cap on the Great Slave Lake to Cape Barrow on the Coronation Gulf and 460 km (290 mi) EW along latitude 64°N.[4] It covers about 700 km × 500 km (430 mi × 310 mi) and is bounded by Palaeoproterozoic belts to the south, east, and west, while younger rocks cover it to the north.[5]
The Slave Craton is divided into a west-central basement complex, the Central Slave Basement Complex, and an eastern province, named the Hackett River Terrane or the Eastern Slave Province. These two domains are separated by a 2.7 Ga-old suture defined by two isotopic boundaries running north to south over the craton.[6]
The SlaveCraton is an Archaean craton in the north-western Canadian Shield, in Northwest Territories and Nunavut. The SlaveCraton includes the 4.03 Ga-old...
Archaean cratons, including the Siberian Craton, with its Anabar/Aldan shields in Siberia, and the Slave, Wyoming, Superior, and North Atlantic cratons in North...
Archean basement rocks, gneisses, that form the northwestern edge of the SlaveCraton in the Northwest Territories, Canada, about 300 km (190 mi) north of...
began when the Slavecraton collided with the Rae-Hearne craton, and the Rae-Hearne craton collided shortly after with the Superior Craton. These then merged...
4.031 ±0.003 billion years, and is part of the Acasta Gneiss of the Slavecraton in northwestern Canada. Researchers at McGill University found a rock...
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underlain by diamond-friendly cratonic rocks of the SlaveCraton, Churchill Craton and the Buffalo Head Craton. The diamonds being found in the NWT were created...
the Slavecraton, northern Canada, Pilbara craton and Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia, Gawler Craton in South Australia, and in the Wyoming Craton in...
(north of the Hottah Lake), a continental magmatic arc, and the Archean SlaveCraton at about 1.88 Ga (billion years). The collision lead to the short-lived...
collided with the Archean SlaveCraton at ca. 1.88 Ga after which the westward subduction of an ancient ocean in front of the SlaveCraton ceased and the Great...
Higman, "Slave Populations of the British Caribbean, 1807–1834", Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Vol. 16, No. 2 (Autumn, 1985), pp. 365–67 Craton, Michael...
The Sclavia Craton is a late Archean supercraton thought to be parental to the Slave and Wyoming Cratons in North America, the Dharwar Craton in southern...
formed from several sections of stable craton continental crust, including the SlaveCraton, Rae Craton and Hearne Craton. These rocks form the Archean and...
foliated, and folded. Even older rocks, such as the Acasta gneiss of the Slavecraton in northwestern Canada, the oldest known rock in the world have been...
Unconstitutionality of Slavery. Saxton & Peirce. pp. 47–48. Michael Craton, "Proto-peasant revolts? The late slave rebellions in the British West Indies 1816–1832." Past...
Creole: Lagè d Lendependans) was a successful insurrection by self-liberated slaves against French colonial rule in Saint-Domingue, now the sovereign state...
2019. p. 240. Craton (1982), pp. 130–31. Craton (1982), pp. 135–36. Brown, Vincent (2020), Tacky's Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War (Cambridge...
earliest rock formation on Earth, are rare. The Acasta orthogneisses of the SlaveCraton, Canada, are regarded to be the oldest rocks on Earth, dated to 4.06 Ga...
The Jericho pipe is a diamondiferous diatreme in the Slavecraton of Nunavut, Canada, located 400 km (249 mi) northeast of Yellowknife near the northern...
Artemisia pipe is a diamond bearing diatreme in the Slavecraton region of northern Northwest Territories, Canada. List of volcanoes in Canada Volcanism...
The Drybones Bay kimberlite pipe is a diamondiferous diatreme in the Slavecraton of the Northwest Territories, Canada. It is the largest diatreme discovered...
org.jm. Craton, Michael, Testing the Chains: Resistance to Slavery in the British West Indies (Cornell University Press, 1983), p. 299. Craton, Testing...
031 ± 0.003 billion years old, and is part of the Acasta Gneiss of the SlaveCraton in northwestern Canada. Older rocks could be found, however, in the form...
dike swarm known on Earth. Around 1,269-1,267 million years ago, the Slavecraton was partly uplifted and intruded by the giant Mackenzie dyke swarm, radiating...
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