craton

part of the continental lithosphere
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craton
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craton

Summary

craton ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (515 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • craton's image is recorded as World geologic provinces.jpg[2].
  • craton's GND ID is recorded as 4165536-9[3].
  • craton's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85033780[4].
  • craton's subclass of is recorded as continental crust[5].
  • craton's part of is recorded as continent[6].
  • craton's Commons category is recorded as Cratons[7].
  • craton's opposite of is recorded as Orogen[8].
  • craton's has part is recorded as shield[9].
  • craton's has part is recorded as platform[10].
  • craton's has part is recorded as basement[11].
  • craton's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/031tht[12].
  • craton's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Cratons[13].
  • craton's PSH ID is recorded as 4557[14].
  • craton's described by source is recorded as National Encyclopedia of Uzbekistan[15].
  • craton's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/craton[16].
  • craton's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as cratons[17].
  • craton's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as kraton[18].
  • craton's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 147717901[19].
  • craton's National Library of Israel J9U ID is recorded as 987007531266805171[20].
  • craton's KBpedia ID is recorded as Craton[21].
  • craton's WordNet 3.1 Synset ID is recorded as 09282406-n[22].
  • craton's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C147717901[23].
  • craton's ScienceDirect topic ID is recorded as earth-and-planetary-sciences/craton[24].
  • craton's AccessScience ID is recorded as 757506[25].
  • craton's Yale LUX ID is recorded as concept/73d57a5d-c0a9-4d9e-8da5-29435896c5a8[26].

Why It Matters

craton ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (515 views/month).[1] craton has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] craton is known by 21 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . wikidata.org.
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  9. [10] . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  12. [13] . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] . National Library of Israel. wikidata.org.
  20. [21] . KBpedia. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] . GF WordNet. wikidata.org.
  22. [23] . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [24] . wikidata.org.
  24. [25] . wikidata.org.
  25. [26] . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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