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Yooperlites are a variety of sodalite-rich syenite found in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
We can add another Michigan discovery to the list related to the oldest rock in America! That's right, this particular rock ...
The newly rediscovered plant was found in Manitowoc County "on the dunes overlooking Lake Michigan," the Wisconsin DNR said in a press release on May 3. Tom Underwood, a volunteer with the Rare ...
Last summer, Tom Underwood set out on a walk on the dunes along Lake Michigan ... size of rare plant populations. Last year, the volunteers filed 223 reports of rare plants, with 42 found in ...
In Michigan and Minnesota, these agates can be found along the shores of Lake Superior. This unique rock is a conglomerate that metamorphosed into quartzite, and got its name because it looked ...
Geologists recently dated the age of Watersmeet gneiss, a type of rock in the Upper Peninsula, as the oldest in the U.S. Here ...
Last summer, Tom Underwood set out on a walk on the dunes along Lake Michigan in Manitowoc County. He was on the lookout for a specific kind of rare plant − the "clustered broomrape" that's only ...