The Superior Province contains east-west striking successor basin siliciclastics. These sediments have maximum depositional ages (MDA) of 2704 to 2682 Ma, and comprise the: 1) English River), Quetico and Pontiac -) subprovinces and 2) smaller coeval occurrences, in turn succeeded by 3) Temiskaming type fluvial-alluvial to marine successor basins (~2672 Ma) unconformably overlying older supracrustal sequences. Traditionally, the Superior Province is considered an accretionary orogen - the early successor basins viewed as separate events, assembled through successive accretionary/collisional events, yielding east–west alignment of granite-greenstone and sedimentary subprovinces. In this model, the sediments are foreland basins and/or accretionary prisms along volcanic arcs. We challenge these interpretations, hypothesizing that these sediments are not multiple events within isolated basins, but rather a product of a southward younging and prograding single event covering the Superior Province south of a Mesoarchean core, now preserved in separate basins that extend over a ~1400 km by 450 km area and 4 subprovinces. Comparable turbiditic sediments of the ~2680Ma Burwash group, covers much of the eastern Slave craton (400 x 800 km basin). Supporting features include: 1) similarity of sedimentary lithofacies throughout and between “basins” 2) detrital zircons indicate local volcanic provenance and a distal, northern provenance for older zircons, 3) the narrow MDA range for the sedimentary units across the southern Superior indicates a single widespread basin, preserved as separate remnants. 4) previous correlations are based on similar MDA ranges for detrital zircons between individual basins (e.g. Pontiac with Quetico) but not all sedimentary basins as herein. 5) their occurrence in narrow, east-west trending linear belts paralleling trans-crustal structures dissecting the Abitibi and Wabigoon subprovinces. 6) The higher metamorphic grade of the older sediments within the more extensive English River, Quetico and Pontiac subprovinces attributed to accretionary processes could equally indicate preservation within early extensional basins, and 7) the occurrence of volcanism within the sedimentary basins, particularly syn-sedimentary komatiites and lamprophyres (e.g. Pontiac, Porcupine and Hurst) suggest extension, crustal thinning and high-heat flow. Implications include: 1) sediment production is late following amalgamation of the Abitibi-Wawa subprovince and involved uplift and erosion of a northern Superior provenance following collision of the 3.5Ga Minnesota River Valley terrane with the Superior Province circa 2685. 2) the location of Timiskaming sediments suggests preservation in second order basins within larger basins defined by the older sediments and 3) syn-orogenic structures, partly responsible for local younger zircons within the older sediments, and subsequent preservation of the older sediments and younger Temiskaming sediments between and overlying greenstone belts, may represent reactivated ancestral faults operative during greenstone belt volcanism. Evidence includes the localization of volcanic assemblages, volcanic centres, VMS deposits, particularly Au-rich VMS deposits, and gold deposits along these structures. Testing will continue within the Metal Earth project.