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Billion Years Ago, a Rift Nearly Split North America in Two and It Left Behind a Mysterious Scar
The horseshoe-shaped Midcontinent Rift is a 2,000-kilometer scar that is also called North America's 'broken heart' by ...
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The Discovery Of The Great Rift Valley, Where Africa Is Splitting In Two
Free from the bother of the caravan, I could climb a mountain ... are pulled apart, blocks slide down along vertical faults, forming the steep cliffs delimitating the rift valley.
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Scientists Expose the Shocking Rupture of North America’s Hidden Billion-Year-Old Rift
Scientists have uncovered a massive ancient geological feature beneath the Midwestern United States — a billion-year-old rift ...
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North America's 'broken heart': The billion-year-old scar from when the continent nearly ripped apart
Why it's incredible: The rift nearly broke North America in half around 1 billion years ago. North America's "broken heart" ...
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Earth's longest fossil rift-valley system
The authors also found that the Gamburtsev province is underlain by crust and lithosphere that are both much thicker than those of the Prince Charles Mountains ... rift flank and in the glacial ...