 It covers about and is bounded by Palaeoproterozoic belts to the south, east, and west, while younger rocks cover it to the north.The Slave Craton is divided into a west-central basement complex, the Central Slave Basement Complex, and an eastern province, named the Hackett River Terrane or the Eastern Slave Province.These two domains are separated by a 2.7 Ga-old suture defined by two isotopic boundaries running north to south over the craton.