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pericratonic

pericratonic adjective: surrounding a craton.

Adjective

pericratonic (not comparable)

  1. Surrounding a craton.
    • The pericratonic Yukon Tanana terrane was a Devonian arc built upon Laurentian (North American) basement [10 ].2015 December 15, “1.8 Billion Years of Detrital Zircon Recycling Calibrates a Refractory Part of Earth’s Sedimentary Cycle”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin of pericratonic

From peri- + cratonic.

Questions about pericratonic

What does pericratonic mean?
Pericratonic means surrounding a craton.
What part of speech is pericratonic?
Pericratonic is an adjective.

Words near pericratonic in the dictionary

  1. pericranial
  2. pericranies
  3. pericranium
  4. pericraniums
  5. pericrany
  6. pericratonic
  7. pericryptal
  8. pericula
  9. periculous
  10. periculum
  11. pericutaneous

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