New insights into North America’s Midcontinent Rift

Authors

Seth Stein, Northwestern University
Carol A. Stein, University of Illinois at Chicago
Jonas Kley
Randy Keller
Miguel Merino
Emily Wolin
Douglas Wiens
Michael E. Wysession
Ghassan Al-Equabi
Weisen Shen
Andrew Frederiksen
Fiona Darbyshire
Donna Jurdy
Greg WaiteFollow
William I. Rose, Michigan Technological UniversityFollow
Erika Vye, Michigan Technological UniversityFollow
Tyrone Rooney
Robert Moucha
Eric Brown

Document Type

News Article

Publication Date

8-4-2016

Abstract

The Midcontinent Rift has characteristics of a large igneous province, causing geologists to rethink some long-standing assumptions about how this giant feature formed.

Publisher's Statement

© 2016. The authors. Publisher's version of record: https://doi.org/10.1029/2016EO056659

Publication Title

Eos 97

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.

Recommended Citation

Stein, S., Stein, C. A., Kley, J., Keller, R., Merino, M., Wolin, E., Wiens, D., Wysession, M. E., Al-Equabi, G., Shen, W., Frederiksen, A., Darbyshire, F., Jurdy, D., Waite, G., Rose, W. I., Vye, E., Rooney, T., Moucha, R., & Brown, E. (2016). New insights into North America’s Midcontinent Rift. Eos 97. http://doi.org/10.1029/2016EO056659
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