Archive for October 17th, 2014

Mysterious Midcontinent Rift is a geological hybrid

An international team of geologists has a new explanation for how the Midwest’s biggest geological feature — an ancient and giant 2,000-mile-long underground crack that starts in Lake Superior and runs south to Oklahoma and to Alabama — evolved. Scientists from Northwestern University, the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), the University of Gottingen in […]