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Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A large portion of a continental plate that has been relatively undisturbed since the Precambrian era and includes both shield and platform layers.
Wiktionary
WordNet 3.0
- n. the part of a continent that is stable and forms the central mass of the continent; typically Precambrian
Etymologies
- From Ancient Greek κράτος (kratos, "strength, might"). (Wiktionary)
- German Kraton, from Greek kratos, power; see kar- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Kimberlite pipes are created when magma bubbles up through a craton, expanding and cooling on its way up.”
Wired: How a Rogue Geologist Discovered a Diamond Trove in the Canadian Arctic
“But Fipke knew that, 100 miles under those pipes, was a craton, a thick, old chunk of continental plate where diamonds form.”
Wired: How a Rogue Geologist Discovered a Diamond Trove in the Canadian Arctic
“If the craton has diamonds in it, the result is either a carrot-shaped, diamond-studded pipe reaching up to the surface or a wide, flat underground structure called a dike.”
Wired: How a Rogue Geologist Discovered a Diamond Trove in the Canadian Arctic
“Fipke also knew that the craton underneath the pipes he had found ran all the way up the Rockies.”
Wired: How a Rogue Geologist Discovered a Diamond Trove in the Canadian Arctic
“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.”
“The continents of Australia, North America, South America, and Africa each have a single continuous craton forming their nucleus.”
“The platform and the basement rock together form a craton.”
“The craton of North America has been relatively stable for about 600 million years.”
“Together the shield and platform form what geologists call a craton.”
“With two thirds of the country covered with the craton-type soil, in which the kimberlite stone which bears diamonds can be found, there has been a steady increase in diamond prospecting.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘craton’.
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Phonestheme: CR- (or KR-)
Grateful credit to pterodactyl and http://reocities.com/SoHo/Studios/9783/phond1.html.
crook, crack, crane, cremains, cranberries, crimp, crow, crunch, crash, creak, croak, cronk and 94 more...
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Russian Doll Words
A Russian Doll word is a word that, when you remove the first and last letters, is either the empty string, or a Russian Doll word. These are all of the 6 or more letter Russian Doll words found in...
waspiness, upraisers, strainers, sporangia, raspiness, prelatess, methanals, gaspiness, washings, uprisers, upraises, upraiser and 2373 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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geologic
karst, meander, lapis lazuli, metasomatic, amphibole, metamorphic, ultrabasic, chilled margin, metavolcanic, subvolcanic, volcanic bomb, pyroclastic and 116 more...
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An Unspecific Gathering
Recently added to be organized (perhaps) later.
metaeuphoria, metaeuphoria, protologism, neologism, contextual, commingling, meta, euphoria, elucidation, disambiguation, hypertextual, kenspeckle and 136 more...
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Recently discovered subatomic particles
futon, craton, bonbon, icon, necronomicon, neocon, lexicon, aileron, metatron, moron, oberon, waitron and 4 more...
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Geology
baraboo, monadnock, peneplain, endrumpf, peneplanation, cairngorm, paleooology, stream capture, allochthon, slickensides, graywacke, tectonics and 56 more...
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1st Listed
Words first listed by me to Wordie; limited to mostly 'real' words.
zeuhl, metaeuphoria, hypertextual, hyperbaric, parachronism, metanoia, prochronism, zao, craton, falsification, nietzschean, hyperconscious and 16 more...
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