Significant Places and Features for Global Tectonics: other Precambrian places - Quiz 10

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Western Hemisphere and
African places


Brazilian Shield
Central Sahara Ghost Craton
Congo Craton
Fiskenaesset
Guyanan Shield
Isua
Kaapvaal Craton
Kasai Craton
Nubia
Tanzanian Craton
West African Craton
Zimbabwean Craton
Eurasian and
Australian places

Finland
Hebei
Kerala
Najd Fault
Oman
Pilbara
Sri Lanka
Ukraine
Yemen
Yilgarn

North American Shield detail

Old stuff
Hearne
Minnesota River Valley basement
Nain-Preketilidian
Rae
Sask craton
Slave craton
Snowbird Tectonic Zone
Superior Province
Wyoming
Yavapai
Younger stuff
Grenville
Hottah
Kapuskasing Structural Zone
Keweenawan
Labradorian
Makkovik-Ketilidian
Mazatzal
Mojave
Nagssugtoqidian-Foxe
New Quebec Orogen
Purtuniq Ophiolite
Southern
Taltson-Thelon arcs
Torngat
Trans-Hudson Orogen
Wopmay
Brazilian Shield
South America

Central Sahara Ghost Craton
Sudan-Chad-Libya-Egypt-Niger

Congo Craton
central Africa

Finland
eastern Europe

Fiskenaesset
Greenland

Grenville
southeastern North American Shield

Guyanan Shield
northern South America

Hearne
central North American Shield

Hebei
China

Hottah
extreme northwestern North American Shield

Isua
Greenland

Kaapvaal Craton
South Africa

Kapuskasing Structural Zone
central Superior Province, northern Ontario

Kasai Craton
DR Congo-Angola

Kerala
India

Keweenawan
Great Lakes area, North American Shield

Labradorian
eastern North American Shield

Makkovik-Ketilidian
eastern North American Shield and southern Greenland

Mazatzal
southwestern North American Shield

Minnesota River Valley basement
central North American Shield, south of Great Lakes

Mojave
southwestern North American Shield

Nagssugtoqidian-Foxe
central Greenland, Baffin Island and northern Hudson Bay

Nain-Preketilidian
both sides of Labrador Sea

Najd Fault
Arabia

New Quebec Orogen
eastern North American Shield, northern Quebec

Nubia
northeast Africa

Oman
Arabia

Pilbara
Western Australia

Purtuniq Ophiolite
northern Quebec

Rae
extensive zone stretching from Saskatchewan across Nunavut, to Greenland and eastern Quebec

Sask craton
Saskatchewan

Slave craton
northwestern North American Shield

Snowbird Tectonic Zone
between Rae and Hearne provinces

Southern
southernmost exposed North American Shield, Great Lakes area

Sri Lanka
south of India

Superior Province
core of North American Shield

Taltson-Thelon arcs
northwestern North American Shield

Tanzanian Craton
east Africa

Torngat
northeastern North American Shield, Labrador

Trans-Hudson Orogen
central North American Shield and Hudson Bay

Ukraine
eastern Europe

West African Craton
Algeria-Mali-Burkina Faso

Wopmay Orogen
northwest Canada

Wyoming
western USA

Yavapai
southwestern North American Shield

Yemen
southern Arabia

Yilgarn
Western Australia

Zimbabwean Craton
southern Africa

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