Wyoming craton

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The Wyoming craton is an ancient, stable block of continental crust in the western United States that forms part of the geological core of North America.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf craton
age Archean
boundedBy Cheyenne belt NERFINISHED
Great Falls tectonic zone NERFINISHED
Trans-Hudson orogen belt NERFINISHED
continent North America
country United States of America
surface form: United States
crustalThickness relatively thick continental crust
economicResourcesInclude base metals
gold
uranium
exposedAt Beartooth Mountains NERFINISHED
Bighorn Mountains NERFINISHED
Black Hills NERFINISHED
Laramie Range NERFINISHED
Wind River Range NERFINISHED
formedBy Archean crustal growth and stabilization
formsPartOf Laurentia NERFINISHED
North American craton NERFINISHED
geochronologyMethodsUsed U-Pb zircon dating
geologicalCoreOf North America NERFINISHED
geophysicalStudiesInclude seismic tomography
hasBasementProvince Wyoming Province NERFINISHED
knownFor exposure of Archean basement rocks
oldest rocks in the United States
lithologyIncludes gneiss
granite
greenstone
metasedimentary rocks
locatedInRegion western United States NERFINISHED
oldestRocksAge >3.0 billion years
orogenicHistoryIncludes Paleoproterozoic accretion events
Trans-Hudson orogeny NERFINISHED
overlainBy Phanerozoic sedimentary cover
researchField Precambrian geology
craton evolution
separatedFrom Hearne-Rae craton NERFINISHED
Superior craton
significance constrains assembly of Laurentia
records early continental crust formation
tectonicSetting interior of North American plate
tectonicStability high
underlies Colorado NERFINISHED
Idaho NERFINISHED
Montana NERFINISHED
South Dakota NERFINISHED
Utah NERFINISHED
Wyoming NERFINISHED

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Laurentia includesRegion Wyoming craton