The Archean rocks have a broad extension in Finland, N.

These areas of Archean rocks were doubtless once continuous.

The sea does not appear to have extended completely across Australia, breaking it into halves, for a projection from the Archean plateau of Western Australia extended as far east as the South Australian highlands, and thence probably continued eastward, till it joined the Victorian highlands.

In Ankole and Koki rocks consisting of granular quartzite, schistose sandstone, red and brown sandstone, and shales with cleaved killas rest on the Archean platform and possibly represent the Lower Witwatersrand beds of the Transvaal.

Timor consists of a core of ancient rocks (Archean?) upon which rest Permian and later deposits of sedimentary origin.