примеры использования
Scotland lies on ancient continental crust known as the Hebridean craton .
Many workers have interpreted the Zimbabwe craton as vertically accreted crust.
Much of the craton remained stable up to Triassic time, with sedimentary sequences dominated by shallow-water and subaerial sediments.
Finally, small, intraplate events not obviously linked to a cratonic boundary are categorized as ‘hotspots’.
Many other mobile belts of various ages crisscross the African cratonic nuclei - these are all ripe for study.
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