The Superior Craton is a stable crustal block covering Quebec, Ontario, and southeast Manitoba in Canada, and northern Minnesota in the United States...
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Arctica (redirect from Hyperborean craton)
Archaean cratons, including the Siberian Craton, with its Anabar/Aldan shields in Siberia, and the Slave, Wyoming, Superior, and North Atlantic cratons in North...
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Vaalbara (redirect from Grunehogna Craton)
Archean supercontinent consisting of the Kaapvaal Craton (now in eastern South Africa) and the Pilbara Craton (now in north-western Western Australia). E....
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Trans-Hudson orogeny (section Superior Boundary zone)
ago. The Trans-Hudson orogen sutured together the Hearne-Rae, Superior, and Wyoming cratons to form the cratonic core of North America in a network of Paleoproterozoic...
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continental crust of North America. The Wyoming Craton was sutured together with the Superior and Hearne-Rae cratons in the mountain-building episode that created...
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Scotia plate Rae Craton – Archean craton in northern Canada north of the Superior Craton (Canada) Sask Craton (Canada) Sclavia Craton – Late Archean supercraton...
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American Craton (Laurentia) Rae Craton Sask Craton Sclavia Craton Slave Craton, Northwest Territories, Canada (4.03–3.5 Ga) Superior Craton, Canada and...
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Laurentia (redirect from North American craton)
when the Slave craton collided with the Rae-Hearne craton, and the Rae-Hearne craton collided shortly after with the Superior Craton. These then merged...
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of the Nastapoka arc largely consists of Archean age rocks of the Superior craton. In areal distribution, these rocks consist of about 60% Archean granitic...
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Circum-Superior Belt lies along the margin of the Superior Craton, which is the most extensive fragment of Archean crust on Earth. The Circum-Superior Belt...
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Geology of Ontario (category Cratons)
geological provinces; The Superior, Southern and Grenville. The Superior Craton or Superior Province is an Archean craton. It is a 160-mile thick section...
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Aridoamerica by geology: Canadian Shield North American craton Slave craton Superior craton Wyoming craton by geography: Eastern South America: Federative Republic...
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and Nebraska. Result of the collision of the Superior craton with the Hearne craton and the Wyoming craton, during the Proterozoic Eon (2000–1800 Ma) Nagssugtoqidian...
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Western Churchill and Superior cratons. These cratons are separated by a tectonic collage that forms a suture zone between these cratons and the Trans-Hudson...
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from the newly identified Eoarchean Nuvvuagittuq supracrustal belt, Superior Craton, Canada". Geological Society of America Bulletin. 121 (1–2): 150–163...
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billion years ago, in the area of Lake Superior, North America. The core of this orogeny, the Churchill Craton, is composed of terranes derived from the...
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Hearne is one of the six Archaean cratons of the Canadian Shield (the other being Slave, Rae, Wyoming, Superior, Nain) that are bound together by Palaeoproterozoic...
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of Laurentia, that at some time during the breakup, the Slave and Superior cratons were not part of the supercontinent Kenorland, but, by then may have...
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Huronian Supergroup is a Proterozoic assemblage of geologic groups of the Superior Craton of the Canadian Shield in Ontario and Quebec. It extends from west...
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greenstone belts, Wawa subprovince, Superior Craton: Implications for the Neoarchean development of the southwestern Superior Province, Precambrian Research...
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Keweenawan Rift. Lake Superior now occupies the apex of the rift; the section to its north marked "SUPERIOR" is the Superior Craton Sleeping Giant in Ontario...
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granite-greenstone, and metamorphosed sedimentary terrains of the Superior Craton of the Canadian Shield. With an area of 360,000 square kilometres (140...
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Proterozoic rift basin. To the west is the Archean Superior Craton. To the east are the rocks of the Archean Rae Craton. The sedimentary rocks and volcanics of the...
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connects with the Superior Province. The region is composed of Archean rocks (ca. 2.7–2.9 Ga) from the Douglas Harbour Domain (see Superior Craton). The Archean...
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geologic feature associated with the Circum-Superior Belt large igneous province throughout the Superior craton. Birchtree mine originally opened in 1965...
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The Rae Craton is an Archean craton located in northern Canada, north of the Superior Craton. The Ungava Peninsula, situated on the northeast portion of...
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to form the Canadian Shield. The southern Archean province is the Superior Craton, it is formed by the combination of a greenstone-granite and a gneiss...
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Zone is a geological feature in Eastern Canada that separates the Superior craton from rocks of the Grenville orogeny. It is a large tectonic zone of...
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The Churchill Craton is the northwest section of the Canadian Shield and stretches from southern Saskatchewan and Alberta to northern Nunavut. It has a...
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Paleoproterozoic units that occur along the edge of the Superior Craton, the Belcher Group forms part of the Circum-Superior Belt. From youngest to oldest, the Belcher...
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