Around 4.03 to 3.

58 Ga, the oldest intact rock formation on the planet, the Acasta Gneiss, was
formed in what is now Northwest Territories (older individual mineral grains are known, but
not whole rocks).[16]
Kenorland was one of the earliest known supercontinents on Earth. It is thought to have formed
during the Neoarchaean Era c. 2.72 billion years ago (2.78Ga) by the accretion of
Neoarchaean cratons and the formation of new continental crust. It comprised what later
became Laurentia (the core of today's North America and Greenland), Baltica (today's
Scandinavia and Baltic), Western Australia and Kalaharia.
Around 2.565 Ga, Arctica formed as an independent continent.
Around 2.72 to 2.45 Ga, Arctica was part of the major supercontinent Kenorland.[clarification
needed]
Around 2.1 to 1.84 Ga, when Kenorland shattered, the Arctican craton was part of the minor
supercontinent Nena along with Baltica and Eastern Antarctica.
Baltica formed at c. 2.0–1.7 Ga by the collision of three Archaean-Proterozoic continental blocks:
Fennoscandia (including the exposed Baltic Shield), Sarmatia (Ukrainian Shield and
Voronezh Massif), and Volgo-Uralia (covered by younger deposits). Sarmatia and Volgo-
Uralia formed a proto-craton (sometimes called "Proto-Baltica")[2] at c. 2.0 Ga which
collided with Fennoscandia c. 1.8–1.7 Ga. The sutures between these three blocks were
reactivated during the Mesoproterozoic and Neoproterozoic.
Atlantica formed simultaneously with Nena at about 1.9 Ga from Archaean cratons, including
Amazonia in present-day South America, and the Congo, West Africa and North Africa
Cratons in Africa.
Around 1.82 Ga, Laurentia was part of the major supercontinent Columbia.
Around 1.35–1.3 Ga, Laurentia was an independent continent.
Around 1.3 Ga, Laurentia was part of the minor supercontinent Protorodinia.
Around 1.07 Ga, Laurentia was part of the major supercontinent Rodinia.
Around 750 Ma, Laurentia was part of the minor supercontinent Protolaurasia. Laurentia nearly
rifted apart.
In the Ediacaran (635 to 541 ±0.3 Ma), Laurentia was part of the major supercontinent Pannotia.
In the Cambrian (541 ±0.3 to 485.4 ±1.7 Ma), Laurentia was an independent continent.
In the Ordovician (485.4 ± 1.7 to 443.8 ±1.5 Ma), Laurentia was shrinking and Baltica was
expanding.
In the Devonian (419.2 ± 2.8 to 358.9 ±2.5 Ma), Laurentia collided against Baltica, forming the
minor supercontinent Euramerica.
In the Permian (298.9 ± 0.8 to 252.17 ±0.4 Ma), all major continents collided against each other,
forming the major supercontinent Pangaea.
In the Jurassic (201.3 ± 0.6 to 145 ±4 Ma), Pangaea rifted into two minor supercontinents:
Laurasia and Gondwana. Laurentia was part of the minor supercontinent Laurasia.
In the Cretaceous (145 ± 4 to 66 Ma), Laurentia was an independent continent called North
America.
In the Neogene (23.03 ± 0.05 Ma until today or ending 2.588 Ma), Laurentia, in the form of North
America, crashed into South America, forming the minor supercontinent America.

During the late Archean there was the formation of the first super continent named Ur (3.0 bya).
There were lots of mountain building and activity of plate tectonics occurring during the
Proterozoic Eon (2.5 bya to 542 mya). Laurentia still existed in N. America, Greenland, NW
Scotland and Scandinavia. The Trans-Hudson Orogeny also took place during this time, which may
have caused the formation of the Nena continent (1.8 bya). Around 1.8 to 1.5 bya, the continents
of Ur, Arctica (Canadian Shield and Siberia), Atlantica (Africa and S. America) and Nena had
collided to form the continent of Columbia. However, during the Mesoproterozoic (1.6-1.0 bya)
Columbia begins to fragment. Due to this fragmentation, and land masses moving, the assembly
and rifting of the first Super Continent of Rodinia took place (1.3-1.0 bya). During the middle
Proterozoic (750 mya – 542 mya) Rodinia was breaking apart, which greatly affected ocean
currents. Rodinia broke apart in two pieces. Half of it crossed the South Pole, and the other half
floated towards the North Pole. Due to so much land masses surrounding the Pole areas, resulted
in a massive Ice Age. Ultimately Rodinia’s two broken pieces lump together with the craton of
Africa (Congo continent) forming the new Supercontinent of Pannotia. Pannotia was a larger land
mass. However, by the end of Precambrian, Pannotia was already starting to break apart.
The continental crust or land masses are very old as the result of the type of processes that have
been going on. About 1/3 of the earth is continental crust. Most of it is under formed sedimentary
rocks as well as deformed rocks of all ages. The oldest rocks are in the interior of the continents
because they’re on the craton. It was the edges that received the other land masses that run into
it, and the continents began to grow by something called accreted terrain. In North America there
was also the collision of the various plates over the last 4 million years.
The Precambrian marked new beginnings for planet Earth. The first water, land, and organisms
appeared. The earliest living organisms were microscopic bacteria, which appeared in the fossil
records as early as 4 billion years ago. During the Proterozoic Eon, the process of photosynthesis
developed with the appearance of algae (single celled plant like organism). Although we don't
have many fossils from this time period, the Precambrian deserves to be renowned as one of the
most important eras. Even the earliest one celled organisms that first appeared in the
Precambrian have evolved into what we are today....humans.
The end of Precambrian is marked with the extinction of several of the "strange" animals and
the first appearance of hard shells on Cambrian animals.