Back Kaapvaal-kraton AF Crató de Kaapvaal Catalan Kaapvaal-Kraton German Cratón de Kaapvaal Spanish Kaapvaaleko kratoia EU Craton du Kaapvaal French Kraton Kaapvaal ID Cratone del Kaapvaal Italian カープバールクラトン Japanese Kāpvālas kratons Latvian/Lettish
The Kaapvaal Craton (centred on the Limpopo Province in South Africa), along with the Pilbara Craton of Western Australia, are the only remaining areas of pristine 3.6–2.5 Ga (billion years ago) crust on Earth. Similarities of rock records from both these cratons, especially of the overlying late Archean sequences, suggest that they were once part of the Vaalbara supercontinent.[1]
- ^ Zegers, T.E., de Wit, M.J., Dann, J. and White, S.H. (1998) "Vaalbara, Earth's oldest assembled continent? A combined, structural, geochronological, and palaeomagnetic test", Terra Nova, 10, 250–259.