...), Kaapvaal Craton, southern Africa, are two of the best exposed granite-greenstone belts. Their striking geological similarities has led to the postulated existence of Vaalbara, a Neoarchaean-Palaeoproterozoic supercraton. Although their respective TTG domes have been compared in terms of a common...

...Michael E. Evans; Adrian R. Muxworthy Vaalbara is the name given to a proposed configuration of continental blocks—the Kaapvaal craton (southern Africa) and the Pilbara craton (north-western Australia)—thought to be the Earth’s oldest supercraton assemblage. Its temporal history is poorly defined...

...M.O. de Kock; I. Malatji; H. Wabo; L.P. Maré Abstract The existence of Vaalbara, the combined Neoarchaean to Palaeoproterozoic Kaapvaal-Pilbara supercraton, is questionable during the early Neoarchaean when scrutinised through the lens of recent Australian and South African palaeomagnetic data...

... of the host rocks and warn that aeromagnetic anomaly patterns in metamorphic terranes may not reflect the underlying rock lithology. Evans and Muxworthy provide additional paleomagnetic data and update the evidence for Vaalbara, a hypothesized 3.1–2.7 Ga Archean supercraton containing both the Kaapvaal...

... Vaalbara supercraton ( de Kock et al., 2009 ) based on stratigraphic comparison and paleomagnetic constraints. (E) More speculative Zimgarn juxtaposition ( Smirnov et al., 2013 ) based on a limited number of dike ages, geometries, and paleomagnetic data. In (B)-(E), arrows show the present north...

... ( Gumsley, 2017 ; Gumsley et al., 2017 ) have led to the proposal of adding “Vaalbara,” a supercraton consisting of the Kaapvaal and Pilbara cratons (de Kock et al., 2009 ; Gumsley et al., 2017 ), to the larger Superia supercraton ( Bleeker et al., 2016 ), which we adopted with slight modifications ( Fig...

... was possibly a part of the Vaalbara supercraton that included the Pilbara (Western Australia) and Kaapvaal (South Africa) cratons ( Kumar et al., 2017 ), whereas the São Francisco craton in South America is considered a part of the Sclavia supercraton, physically separated from the Vaalbara supercraton...

... “supercraton”. Bleeker (2003) discusses a Late Archaean geodynamic scenario wherein he evaluates three possible end-member models: (1) a single supercontinent (viz. the “Kenorland solution” based on the work of Williams et al. 1991 ) scenario; (2) a limited set of supercratons (e.g., Vaalbara, Superia...

... and Phanerozoic. Extant data have, however, been used to suggest a Vaalbara super-craton between 2.8 and 2.2 Ga, that break-up of Superia did not occur until 2.1 Ga, that break-up of Sclavia occurred at 2.0 Ga, and that these two supercratons were not likely adjacent from 2.4 to 2.2 Ga ( Salminen et al. 2021...

... and Kaapvaal cratons compared; an early Vaalbara supercraton evaluated . South African Journal of Geology , 124 , 37 – 52 , https://doi.org/10.25131/sajg.124.0010 Gerya , T . 2014 . Precambrian geodynamics: concepts and models . Gondwana Research , 25 , 442 – 463 , https://doi.org/10.1016...

.... , Ernst , R.E. , Söderlund , U. , and Li , Z.-X. , 2013 , Trading partners: Tectonic ancestry of southern Africa and western Australia, in supercratons Vaalbara and Zimgarn : Precambrian Research , v. 224 , p. 11 – 22 , https://doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2012.09.020 . Smirnov...

... with the complex seafloor topography, would not only have important implications for the origin of the world’s largest manganese deposit but also for paleogeographic reconstructions of the Neoarchean to early Paleoproterozoic supercraton Vaalbara ( Cheney and Winter, 1995 ; Cheney, 1996 ; Zegers et al., 1998...

... Ga zircon age fraction points towards a prominent, likely orogenic source of detritus. We assign the origin of the major ~2.5 Ga and older zircon age fractions to a Rae-type craton, which we proposed to have been attached to the north of the Vaalbara Craton at time of deposition of these units...

.... Rapid crust growth in the latest Archean suggests the existence of supercontinents, which still has no reliable proofs ( Condie, 2011 ). The known three dozens of Archean cratons appear to be fragments of large landmasses, judging by their similarity, and might have belonged to supercratons ( Bleeker...

..., and their ancestry in the Vaalbara supercontinent is proposed ( Kumar et al., 2017 ). The younger ~1765 Ma dykes are found with the linkage to the North China Craton and Baltica based on the geological, tectonic and metallogenic evidence ( Shankar et al., 2018 ). An anhydrous mantle upwelling origin was proposed...

... Iron Ore Group, W-IOG) and initial ε Nd values reported in this study. Orange boxes represent supercontinent and/or hypothesized supercraton events found in literature (e.g., Mahapatro et al., 2012 ). P—Pangaea; G—Gondwana; R—Rodinia; N—Nuna; K—Kenorland; V—Vaalbara. Bars represent the range...

... ; Evans 2000 ). Mid-Proterozoic Nuna was probably the first true supercontinent, whereas the late Archean may have been characterized by several discrete, transient, aggregations referred to here as supercratons: Vaalbara, Superia, Sclavia and possibly others. The diachronous breakup of these supercratons...