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October 20, 2014

Mysterious Midcontinent Rift is a Geological Hybrid
Evanston IL (SPX) Oct 20, 2014
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 Germany and the University of Oklahoma report that the 1.1 billion-year-old Midcontinent Rift is a geological hybrid, having formed in th ... read more

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