craton

I don't play a lot, but when I do, this is the account I use:Server: ICCup Nick: craton

Much of North America is made up of island arcs stuck to the Laurentian craton.

These mountains are part of a craton that split when Australia cleaved off Africa.

Around these cratons are progressively younger strips of crust stuck on by colliding island arcs.

Why aren't there more data centers in the solid craton part of the content far from these inevitable coastal problems?

Today's tectonic plates are cored by ancient cratons, the oldest and most tectonically stable pieces of crust.

Zealandia has yet to be shown to contain a craton, presence of which would probably result in its undisputed acceptance as a continent.

All of today's "classical" continents are amalgamations of contiguous continental crust around one or more neighboring cratons.

India is a former continent underlain by its own craton and its own tectonic plate that has collided with the much larger Eurasian plate in the epic Himalayan orogeny [1].

Also choose a low-latitude location to prevent glaciation during the next ice age, stay far away from major faults, and try to predict whether your craton will drift over a known hotspot during the time frame you're concerned about.

Some of the definitions are complicated by the fact that continents join and break up, and their continuity across multiple continental cycles is not a given -- but that of cratons is, which are sort of an inner core of really old rocks that managed to survive all sorts of tectonic abuse.