M. Merino
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New Insights into North America’s Midcontinent Rift

by S. Stein, C. Stein, J. Kley, R. Keller, M. Merino, E. Wolin, D. Wiens, Michael Wysession, G. Al-Equabi, W. Shen, Andrew Frederiksen, Fiona Darbyshire, D. Jurdy, Gregory Waite, W. Rose, E. Vye, T. Rooney, R. Moucha and E. Brown

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