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| Orange and pink (shields and platforms) are more or less the cratons that form the cores of continents. |
By Richard I. Gibson
Asia is kind of a mess in terms of geology – lots of cratonic blocks of various sizes that came together at various times to create what we think of today as Asia. The biggest of all is the Archean East Siberian Craton, in central Russia east of the Ural Mountains.
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