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What is a craton?

What is a craton? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A part of the Earth’s crust that has survived the splitting and merging of continents.
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A well-known older astrobleme situated in the margin of the Mesoprotozoic Superior craton provides a good example of meteorite fall.
The three named genera of the family are apparently endemic to the southwestern North American craton.
The basin is separated from the craton by a major tectonic flexure known as the Redstone arch.
A large area of northern and central Canada is underlain by a huge craton, which forms the nucleus of the North American continent.
The Cimmerian islands, the present Turkey, Iran and Tibet, broke completely free of the Australian craton and moved rapidly to the north.
Much of the craton remained stable up to Triassic time, with sedimentary sequences dominated by shallow-water and subaerial sediments.

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