The South China Craton or South China Block is one of the Precambrian continental blocks in China. It is traditionally divided into the Yangtze Block...

The North China Craton is a continental crustal block with one of Earth's most complete and complex records of igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic processes...

which craton derives. Examples of cratons are the Dharwar Craton in India, North China Craton, the East European Craton, the Amazonian Craton in South America...

Craton East Saharan Meta-craton Congo Craton, central southern Africa Bangweulu Block, Zambia Tanzanian Craton Kalahari Craton Kaapvaal Craton, South...

The geology of China (or the geological structure of the People's Republic of China) consists of three Precambrian cratons surrounded by a number of orogenic...

entities reduces as geologists look further back in time. The list includes cratons, supercratons, microcontinents, continents and supercontinents. For the...

Laurentia or the North American Craton is a large continental craton that forms the ancient geological core of North America. Many times in its past, Laurentia...

tectonics. The Indian Craton can be divided into five major cratons as such: Aravalli Craton (Marwar-Mewar Craton or Western Indian Craton): Covers Rajasthan...

Aravalli Craton (India) Bastar Craton (India) Bhandara Craton (India) Bundelkhand Craton (India) Dharwar Craton – Part of the Indian Shield in south India...

extinction have been discovered in what was then the boundary between the South China craton and the Indochinese plate, a subduction zone with a volcanic arc....

the South China Craton split from Gondwana and moved northward, shrinking the Proto-Tethys Ocean and opening the Paleo-Tethys Ocean to the south. In the...

South and North Indian Blocks were amalgamated along the Central Indian Tectonic Zone; and the eastern and western blocks of the North China Craton were...

Yangtze Craton during subduction beneath the North China Craton. As the oceanic Yangtze Craton subducted under the continental North China Craton, magmatic...

and east of the Aral Sea, south of the Siberian craton and west of the Altai Mountains. The Junggar basin in Xinjiang, China, is also part of Kazakhstania...

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...

American craton Slave craton Superior craton Wyoming craton by geography: Eastern South America: Federative Republic of Brazil Northern South America –...

northern shore of the South China Craton, a subcontinent which drifted through Tethys ocean during the Middle Triassic. The South China Craton collided with the...

The Western Block of the North China Craton is an ancient micro-continental block mainly composed of Neoarchean and Paleoproterozoic rock basement, with...

and central US, Europe, Russia and central Asia) and the North and South China cratons. The rapid sea levels fluctuations they represent correlate with...

North China Craton, a large area of tilled and overlaid Precambrian rocks spanning 100 million hectares (250 million acres). The North China Craton was...

of the North China Craton is one of the Earth's oldest pieces of continent. It is separated from the Western Block by the Trans-North China Orogen. It is...

event – Earth's most severe extinction event South China Craton – Precambrian continental block located in China Reconstruction from Dèzes 1999, p. 16 Reconstruction...

"Large vertical δ13CDIC gradients in Early Triassic seas of the South China craton: Implications for oceanographic changes related to Siberian Traps...

first-order neotectonic units of Asia are Stable Asia, the Arabian and Indian cratons, the Alpide plate boundary zone (along which the Arabian and Indian platforms...

continental crust of the South China Craton and the oceanic crust of the South China Sea. Within the stable South China Craton, there are three zones of...

small proportion), while Archean TTG rocks are major components of Archean cratons. The quartz percentage among felsic minerals in TTG rocks is usually larger...

gneiss, were isolated islands many millions years ago when the south of China (South China Craton) was a vast ocean. However, tectonic collision had induced...

Chūgoku), eastern Mongolia and the south of Russian Far East. North China Craton Yu. F. Malyshev, et al. Deep structure of the Amur lithospheric Plate...

Block of the North China craton. Beginning in the Mesozoic, Shandong has undergone a crustal thinning that is unusual for a craton and that has reduced...

recorded in South Australia, South China, Tarim, Kalahari, India, and the Arabian-Nubian Craton. Rifting progressed in the same cratons 800–750 Ma and...