Stratigraphic and geochronological constraints on the supracrustal succession of the South West Terrane of the Yilgarn Craton of Western Australia: Insight into Archean terrane amalgamation

• Contrasting geodynamic mechanisms simultaneously drive craton growth. • Case study into the evolution of the western Yilgarn Craton. • Early history of the South West Terrane is not shared across terrane boundarys. • Documentation of a Paleoarchean history in the South West Terrane. An outstanding question in Archean geodynamics is how the earliest continental crust was formed and stabilised, and how similar this process was to what is observed in the present day. Continental crust formation i