http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyoming_craton

First time I've seen the use of SI prefixes for years. I think Ga means Giga 
Annum.

Mike Payne

Local preservation of 3.6-3.0 Ga gneisses and widespread isotopic evidence for 
crust of this age incorporated into younger plutons indicates that the Wyoming 
craton was, and still is, a 100,000 km2 middle Archean craton that was modified 
by late Archean magmatism and tectonism and Proterozoic extension and 
rifting.[2]

The Wyoming, Superior and Hearne cratons were once sections of separate 
continents, but today they are all welded together. The collision of these 
cratons began before ca. 1.77 Ga, with post-tectonic magmatism at ca. 1.715 Ga 
(the Harney Peak granite). This tectonic-magmatic interval is 50-60 million 
years younger than that reported for the Hearne-Superior collision of the 
Trans-Hudson orogeny in Canada.

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