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We therefore assumed that these maxima delineate the border of thecraton.
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A miogeosyncline is the nonvolcanic portion of an orthogeosyncline, located adjacent acraton.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These inclusions have densities consistent withcratoncomposition and are composed of mantle material residual from high degrees of partial melt.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Cratonperidotite moisture content is unusually low, which leads to much greater strength.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.What is left of these first small continents are called cratons.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The thermal activity was caused by excessive mantle heat that had built up below thecraton, insulated by the lithosphere.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The cratons are of significant importance in terms of mineral resources, with major deposits of gold, antimony, iron, chromium and nickel.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The mantle lithosphere under these cratons is particularly thick (up to 200 km or more) and cool.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.There are many microcontinents, or continental fragments, that are built of continental crust but do not contain acraton.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Diamond-bearing volcanic pipes are closely related to the oldest, coolest regions of continental crust (cratons).
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.All of these cratons are bounded by younger fold belts formed between 2.0 billion and 300 million years ago.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Peridotites are important for understanding the deep composition and origin of cratons because peridotite nodules are pieces of mantle rock modified by partial melting.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Since then, many alternative reconstructions have been proposed for the configuration of the cratons in this supercontinent.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This is because cratons are very thick, and their lithospheric mantle extends to great enough depth that diamonds are stable.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.They define the boundaries between the belt and the adjacent cratons and separate internal zones within the belt.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The cratons were surrounded by extensive delta systems and lagoons, and carbonate sedimentation on the surrounding continental platforms, covered by shallow seas.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Around this terrane some areas of extension happened on the maincraton, creating several basins up to 2 km deep.
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