n. A part of the Earth’s crust that has survived the splitting and merging of continents.
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n. the part of a continent that is stable and forms the central mass of the continent; typically Precambrian
Word Usage
"The greenstones of the Kaapvaal craton in the northeast have been found to contain unicellular and biogenic filamentous structures, signs of some of the earliest forms of life."