The Day a 2,000 KM Fault Almost Split America in Two: The Buried Secret of the Midwest
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The Day a 2,000 KM Fault Almost Split America in Two: The Buried Secret of the Midwest
More than 1.1 billion years ago, an immense geological fault called the Midcontinent Rift began to form beneath what is now the U.S. Midwest. This massive rift stretches approximately 2,000 kilometers (about 1,900 miles) in a horseshoe shape, running from Kansas north to Lake Superior and then curving south again to Michigan. The rifting process threatened to split the North American continent in two but stopped suddenly after about 100,000 year…
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