Midcontinent Rift System - Wikipedia
The Midcontinent Rift System (MRS) or Keweenawan Rift is a 2,000 km (1,200 mi) long geological rift in the center of the North American continent and south-central part of the North American …
Understanding the Mineral Resources of the Midcontinent Rift
Jan 25, 2018 · The Midcontinent Rift System, which curves for more than 2000 km across the Upper Midwest, is one of the world’s great continental rifts. Rifting began about 1.1 billion …
New Insights into North America’s Midcontinent Rift - Eos
Aug 4, 2016 · Called the Midcontinent Rift (MCR), this 3000-kilometer-long feature, made of 1.1-billion-year-old igneous and sedimentary rocks, extends underground across the central …
Geophysics of the Midcontinent Rift Region - USGS.gov
Aug 20, 2020 · Objective: to develop an integrated 3D geology model of the mid-continent rift in the western Lake Superior region from legacy geophysical data, new EarthScope and …
Midcontinent Rift System Map | U.S. Geological Survey - USGS.gov
The Midcontinent rift system cuts across terranes ranging in age from 3.6 to 1.65 Ga. The location of the rift south of Lake Superior in Minnesota, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Nebraska, and …
The Midcontinent Rift - U.S. National Park Service
Jan 21, 2023 · The Midcontinent Rift ran from at least Kansas, up into Lake Superior, and then down into Lower Michigan. Though rift related rocks are only exposed in the Lake Superior …
Using Lake Superior parks to explain the Midcontinent Rift
Feb 24, 2015 · Called the Midcontinent Rift System (MCRS), this structure is a 1.1 billion–year–old, 1,864-mile (3,000 km) long, mostly buried scar along which the North …
MIDCONTINENT RIFT SYSTEM - Michigan Technological University
The Midcontinent Rift system of North America extends for more than 2000 km northeasterly from Kansas through the Lake Superior region and then southeasterly through lower Michigan.
Reviewing the configuration and extent of the Midcontinent rift system ...
Jun 15, 2020 · The ca. 1100 Ma old Midcontinent Rift System (MRS) 1 is arguably the most significant non-orogenic tectonic feature of mid-North America because of its major …
North America’s Midcontinent Rift: When rift met LIP
Oct 1, 2015 · One of the most prominent features on gravity and magnetic maps of North America is the Midcontinent Rift (MCR), an extensive band of buried igneous and sedimentary rocks …