Vaalbara

Vaalbara was an Archean supercontinent consisting of the Kaapvaal Craton and the Pilbara Craton. E.S. Cheney derived the name from the last four letters of each craton's name. The two cratons consist of crust dating from 2.7 to 3.6 Gya, which would make Vaalbara Earth's earliest supercontinent

An Archaean-Palaeoproterozoic (2.8—2.1 Ga) link between South Africa and Western Australia was first proposed by A. Button in 1976. He found a wide range of similarities between the Transvaal Basin in South Africa and the Hamersley Basin in Australia. Button, however, placed Madagascar between Africa and Australia and concluded that Gondwana must have had a long stable tectonic history. Similarly, in the reconstruction of Rogers 1993, 1996 the oldest continent is Ur. In Rogers' reconstructions, however, Kaapvaal and Pilbara are placed far apart already in their Gondwana configuration, a reconstruction contradicted by later orogenic events and incompatible with the Vaalbara hypothesis.

Vaalbara is the Earth's theorized first supercontinent. It was a complete supercontinent by 3,100 million years ago. Vaalbara formed possibly beginning 3,600 million years ago