Solving the Midwest's biggest geologic mystery

Tuesday, March 11, 2014 - 07:30 in Paleontology & Archaeology

(Phys.org) —Geologists from Northwestern University, the University of Illinois at Chicago, the University of Oklahoma and Purdue University have a new explanation for the Midwest's biggest geologic mystery: What caused the giant 2,000-mile-long rift that starts in Lake Superior and runs south to Oklahoma and Alabama?

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