craton in a sentence
Examples
- It needs no assistance on the craton.
- Most crustal rocks formed before 2.5 billion years ago are located in cratons.
- Like all cratons, the latter is composed of the crystalline basement and sedimentary cover.
- Cratons are subdivided geographically into geologic provinces.
- Metaigneous and metavolcanic rocks form the largest component of cratons and are high in silica.
- Thick successions of carbonate rocks are often deposited on craton margins during sea level rise.
- The greenstone belts of the various archean cratons are commonly altered to the greenschist facies.
- Layered intrusions are found in typically ancient cratons and are rare but worldwide in distribution.
- The Pilbara craton in western Australia is not well defined but formed around 3 Gya.
- The Siberian craton, Australia and eastern Antarctica have all been suggested based paleomagnetic information.