skip to main content

Content language

Contact us: CRM@email.irandoc.ac.ir

Concept information

Preferred term

shield  

Type

  • http://www.irandoc.ac.ir/onto/irandoc-meta/Concept

Broader concept

Definitions

  • The extensive central cratons of continents may consist of both shields and platforms, and the crystalline basement. A shield is that part of a craton in which the usually Precambrian basement rocks crop out extensively at the surface. [Wikipedia]

Obsolete

  • false

In other languages

URI

http://www.irandoc.acir/onto/irandoc/SWEETT11862

Download this concept: