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Shield (geography)
In geography, a shield is a large Archaean (Precambrian) rock mass at the centre of a continent, such as the Canadian Shield and the Baltic Shield. The term, in this sense, was translated from German schild by H. B. C. Sollas in Suess's Face of Earth in 1901.
See also Craton.
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