This paper discusses geological events with an approximately global preservational scale which can aidinter-cratonic correlations and contribute to postulates of supercontinents for a set of chosen Precambriancratons. The chronological scale of such events is highly variable, and most event types detailed(supercontinent-, mantle plume-, orogenic-, chemostratigraphic-, glacial events and major unconformities)have durations concomitant with the large-scale interaction of mantle thermal and plate tectonicprocesses that were largely responsible for their genesis, i.e. 10s to 100s of millions of years. Geologicallyinstantaneous events of global compass (e.g., impact or major eruptive events) provide importantchronological markers for interpreting the longer term events. The same interplay of tectono-thermalgeodynamic processes that drives the evolution of the Earth and the operation of its supercontinentcycles is also, ultimately, responsible for and of comparable duration to first- and second-order sequencestratigraphic cyclicity. This paper thus serves to introduce these concepts and discuss the problems intheir application to specific Precambrian cratons, in relation to the aim of this special issue, of providinga set of accommodation curves for many of these ancient crustal terranes.
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