The prerift crust, however, was thinned 25-30 km beneath the central rift (compared with its flanks), providing evidence for crustal extension by factors of about 3-4. The Midcontinent rift system differs from Phanerozoic rifts in having total crustal thicknesses equal to or greater than the surrounding (presumably unextended) regions.Rift. Block view of a rift formed of three segments, showing the location of the accommodation zones between them at changes in fault location or polarity (dip direction) Gulf of Suez Rift showing main extensional faults. In geology, a rift is a linear zone where the lithosphere is being pulled apart [1] [2] and is an example of extensional ...The Midcontinent Rift System (MRS) of central North America is a 1.1-Ga, 2500-km long structural feature that has been interpreted as a triple-junction rift developed over a mantle plume. As much ...The 1100 Ma Midcontinent rift system of North America is one of the world's great igneous provinces, containing over one million km 3 of mafic volcanic and plutonic rocks. Volcanic rocks range from picrite to rhyolite, although tholeiitic basalt predominates. Plutonic rocks range from peridotite to granite, with plagioclase-rich gabbros and ...Geophysical investigations have had a prominent role in studying the 1100 Ma Midcontinent Rift system because of limited surface exposures and deep drilling of the rift rocks. Gravity and magnetic anomaly data delineate the rift system—its central volcanic-filled graben and overlying and adjacent post-rift sedimentary basins—and the major ...Rift-wide correlation of 1.1 Ga Midcontinent rift system basalts: implications for multiple mantle sources during rift development. 1997 • Steven Shirey. Download Free PDF View PDF. The Journal of Geology. Detrital Zircon Provenance of the Mesoproterozoic Midcontinent Rift, Lake Superior Region, U.S.A.The Tamarack Intrusive Complex (TIC, 1105.6 ± 1.2 Ma) in NE Minnesota, was emplaced during the early stages of the development of the Midcontinent Rift System (MRS, "Early Stage": 1110-1106 Ma).Country rocks of the TIC are those of the Paleoproterozoic Thomson Formation, part of the Animikie Group including sulfide-bearing metasedimentary black shale.The tectono-magmatic history of the Midcontinent rift system can be explained by the presence of a mantle plume bringing elevated-temperature mantle beneath the rift system at about 1110 Ma. Huge volumes of extrusive and intrusive igneous rocks were generated as abnormally hot mantle decompressed beneath the lithospheric rift. Geochemical and isotopic data from the Keweenawan volcanics show ...The Midcontinent Rift system and surrounding Precambrian rocks are known to host highly significant mineral resources. Our project objectives are to increase understanding of this system through the integration of new and legacy geophysical data with geochemical and borehole data, map the lithology and structure of PreCambrian rocks, and develop an integrated 3D geologic model of the region.The other hypothetical play identified was the Precambrian Midcontinent Rift System (5101) play which is discussed under the Superior Province (051). ... isotope variation in Mid-continent "Ordovician-type" oils; relationship to a major Middle Ordovician carbon isotope shift: American Association of Petroleum Geologist Bulletin, v. 69, p. ...Nov 21, 2018 · The major rift-bounding structure on the west side of the Midcontinent Rift System in Kansas is referred to as the Peace Creek Tectonic Zone (fig. 1; Berendsen and Blair, 1986). It is recognizable in the subsurface in southern Kansas, but cannot be mapped into the Salina basin, because of the paucity of available data. A real rift in the midcontinent. by Naomi Lubick. Monday, July 28, 2014. Analogs for the various life stages of the Midcontinent Rift can be seen today. The early rift looked like today's East African Rift, with major plates pulling apart, separated by microplates. At middle age, it was similar to the West Central African Rift, where faulting ...The 1100 Ma Midcontinent rift system of North America is one of the world's great igneous provinces, containing over one million km 3 of mafic volcanic and plutonic rocks. Volcanic rocks range from picrite to rhyolite, although tholeiitic basalt predominates. Plutonic rocks range from peridotite to granite, with plagioclase-rich gabbros and ...The last developmental phase of the Midcontinent rift system, from 1.060 to 1.040 Ga, was characterized by a regional compressional event likely caused by continental collision along the Grenville ...January 1, 1992 The 1.1 Ga Midcontinent rift system of North America is one of the world's major continental rifts and hosts a variety of mineral deposits. The rocks and mineral deposits of this 2000 km long rift are exposed only in the Lake Superior region.AbstractThe ~1.1 Ga Midcontinent Rift (MCR), the 3000 km long largely buried feature causing the largest gravity and magnetic anomaly within the North American craton, ... Another analogy is the West Central African Rift (WCAR) system formed as part of the Mesozoic opening of the South Atlantic.The Midcontinent Rift System (MRS) is a Middle Proterozoic failed rift system that stretches from eastern Lake Superior to central Kansas. Over most of its length, it is characterized by a central horst (dominated by mafic volcanic rocks) flanked by a series of clastic-filled basins that thicken towards the horst in the half-graben ...We report the ages of detrital zircons (207Pb/206Pb LA-ICPMS; ) from 12 clastic units that are representative of the Mesoproterozoic Midcontinent Rift System (MRS) of North America. Magmatism of ...Resistant Midcontinent Rift Grand Portage dike . NPS photo / M. Plummer-Steen. Late Precambrian Midcontinent Rift. 1,109-1,000 Million YBP. About 1,200 million years ago, fragments of continental crust pushed together by tectonic motion began to assemble the giant continent of Rodinia.Only 109 million years after forming, Rodinia began to break apart along a giant rupture that cut through ...The Humboldt Fault (red) and Midcontinent Rift System (green) in Kansas and Nebraska. The Humboldt Fault or Humboldt Fault Zone, is a normal fault or series of faults, that extends from Nebraska southwestwardly through most of Kansas. Kansas is not particularly earthquake prone, ranking 45th out of 50 states by damage caused.Rift-wide correlation of 1.1 Ga Midcontinent rift system basalts: implications for multiple mantle sources during rift development. 1997 • Steven Shirey. Download Free PDF View PDF. The Journal of Geology. Detrital Zircon Provenance of the Mesoproterozoic Midcontinent Rift, Lake Superior Region, U.S.A.The Midcontinent Rift. The copper that was mined in the Keweenaw formed during a spectacular period in Earth's history—at a time when the North American continent was splitting apart. This separation began about 1.1 billion years ago and at its peak had a length of over 3,000 kilometers.We report the ages of detrital zircons (207Pb/206Pb LA-ICPMS; ) from 12 clastic units that are representative of the Mesoproterozoic Midcontinent Rift System (MRS) of North America.Abstract. A variety of data have been compiled in eastern Nebraska and adjacent areas that are pertinent to understanding the complex Precambrian history of the Midcontinent USA. Petrographie analysis has been done for samples from wells penetrating the Precambrian surface. Chemical analysis is available for rock types such as rift basalt ...1. Introduction [2] The recent discovery of the Eagle Ni-Cu-PGE deposit in Upper Michigan represents a major breakthrough in the exploration for magmatic sulfide deposits in the Midcontinent Rift System (MRS) ().Prior to the Eagle discovery, sulfide mineralization in the MRS was known to occur mainly in the basal zones of large layered mafic intrusions within the Duluth and Mellen complexes ...The Midcontinent Rift System (MRS), a 2,700 km long, horseshoe shaped, intra-continental, thermo-tectonic structure of Middle Proterozoic age, extends from central Kansas to at least southern Ohio by way of the Lake Superior basin. Its western arm, geophysically identified as the Midcontinent Gravity High, has recently been clarified ...The Coldwell Complex represents the largest alkaline intrusion associated with the Midcontinent Rift System in North America. This complex contains a plethora of rock types that have previously been subdivided into three intrusive centers. A detailed U-Pb zircon/baddeleyite age study of five samples indicates that the majority of the complex was emplaced into "cold" Archean crust at 1108± ...The Midcontinent Rift System (MRS) is an approximately 2,200 km curvilinear Mesoproterozoic rift that stretches from Kansas northeast to the Lake Superior region where it turns southeast and extends through lower Michigan. Although rocks of the MRS are largely buried beneath younger rocks except around the margins and on islands of Lake ...The North American Midcontinent Rift System (MRS) is a sequence of volcanic and clastic sedimentary rocks that were deposited around 1.1 Ga. Rocks from the MRS outcrop along both the north and south shores of western Lake Superior, with gravity and seismic data revealing vast rift deposits below the lake that continue in the subsurface as far southwest as Kansas (Cannon et al., 1989, Cannon et ...Sep 7, 2023 · The Midcontinent Rift system and surrounding Precambrian rocks are known to host highly significant mineral resources. Our project objectives are to increase understanding of this system through the integration of new and legacy geophysical data with geochemical and borehole data, map the lithology and structure of PreCambrian rocks, and develop an integrated 3D geologic model of the region. The Midcontinent Rift system and surrounding Precambrian rocks are known to host highly significant mineral resources. Our project objectives are to increase understanding of this system through the integration of new and legacy geophysical data with geochemical and borehole data, map the lithology and structure of PreCambrian rocks, and develop an integrated 3D geologic model of the region.between ____ billion years ago, the east continent-midcontinent rift system opened a large arcuate gash in ____ from Kansas to the upper Great Lake region. normal, tensional ____ faulting produced by ____ forces, can be found within the rocks of the East Continent-Midcontinent rift systemMagmatic Ni-Cu-PGE mineralization in the ~ 1.1 Ga Midcontinent Rift System (Fig. 1) in North America can be broadly divided into three types (see a recent review by Ripley, 2014).Disseminated sulfide mineralization occurs within multiple, sheet-like intrusions that comprise a large portion of the Duluth Complex.Rift. Block view of a rift formed of three segments, showing the location of the accommodation zones between them at changes in fault location or polarity (dip direction) Gulf of Suez Rift showing main extensional faults. In geology, a rift is a linear zone where the lithosphere is being pulled apart [1] [2] and is an example of extensional ...The Midcontinent Rift System (MRS) or Keweenawan Rift is a 2,000 km (1,200 mi) long geological rift in the center of the North American continent and south-central part of the North American plate. It formed when the continent's core, the North American craton, began to split apart during the Mesoproterozoic era of the Precambrian, about 1.1 billion years ago. The rift failed, leaving behind ...... Mid-Continent Rift System (MCRS). The rift failed, leaving a 2000 km long belt of volcanic and sedimentary rocks left from the early rifting stage. We have ...The Midcontinent Rift System (MRS) of central North America is a 1.1-Ga, 2500-km long structural feature that has been interpreted as a triple-junction rift developed over a mantle plume.On the basis of similarities in lithology, stratigraphy, structure, and proximity to regional gravity anomalies, the Middle Run Formation and its apparent half-graben basin is proposed as evidence for the probable extension of the Midcontinent Rift System southward, from its normally accepted termination in southeastern Michigan, into ...Early history of the Midcontinent Rift inferred from geochemistry and sedimentology of the Mesoproterozoic Osler Group, northwestern Ontario 2007 • P. HollingsThe Keweenaw Peninsula lies on the southern flank of the Mid-Continent Rift system (MCR) of North America. The MCR extends for about 2,000 kilometres from Kansas northeast through Lake Superior, then southeast through the lower peninsula of Michigan where it ends abruptly near Detroit, Michigan.The major rift-bounding structure on the west side of the Midcontinent Rift System in Kansas is referred to as the Peace Creek Tectonic Zone (fig. 1; Berendsen and Blair, 1986). It is recognizable in the subsurface in southern Kansas, but cannot be mapped into the Salina basin, because of the paucity of available data.Midcontinent Rift. The Midcontinent Rift (MCR), a 3000-km-long band of more than 2 million km 3 of buried igneous and sedimentary rocks that outcrop near Lake Superior, has been extensively studied, as reviewed by Ojakangas et al. (2001) and S. Stein et al. (2018). To the south, it is buried by younger sediments, but easily traced because the rift-filling volcanic rocks are dense and highly ...The mineral system approach considers the origin of these deposits in the framework of lithospheric-scale processes from the time-honoured perspective of source, fluids, transport and traps. ... Nd, O and S isotope constraints on country rock contamination in the conduit-related Eagle Cu-Ni-(PGE) deposit, Midcontinent Rift System, upper ...Mar 1, 2018 · The Keweenawan Midcontinent rift system was imposed upon the terrane suture in our study area at ca. 1100 Ma. This event nearly separated the ancient continent and imparted enormous volumes of mafic magma to various depths in the crust (Hinze et al., 1997; Nicholson et al., 1997; Vervoort et al., 2007; Stein et al., 2015), engendering numerous high-grade base and precious metal deposits ... Two prominent Precambrian features of central North America (Fig. 1) record opposite ends of the Wilson cycle.One, the Midcontinent Rift (MCR), is a 3000-km long horseshoe-shaped band of more than 2 million km 3 of buried igneous and sedimentary rocks that outcrop near Lake Superior (Ojakangas et al., 2001; S. Stein et al., 2018).To …The Midcontinent Rift system and surrounding Precambrian rocks are known to host highly significant mineral resources. Our project objectives are to increase understanding of this system through the integration of new and legacy geophysical data with geochemical and borehole data, map the lithology and structure of PreCambrian rocks, and develop an integrated 3D geologic model of the region.To the north and west of New Madrid's jagged Reelfoot Rift is the much larger and even more unthinkably ancient Midcontinent Rift, formed more than a billion years ago when there was nothing ...Younger examples are particularly well-endowed with magmatic and hydrothermal ore deposits. These include the 1.1 Ga Mid-Continent rift system and the Cenozoic Rio Grande Rift, both in the USA, the giant Permo-Triassic rifts developed between the East European and Siberian cratons and associated with the world-famous 250 Ma Siberian traps.Microbially induced sedimentary structures (MISS) are primarily known from transitional marine (tidal) and shallow-marine settings. New results from the ca. 1.1 Ga Midcontinent Rift System of ...Mid-Continent Rift Story Map By Communications and Publishing. Original Thumbnail Medium. Detailed Description. Meet the Mid-Continent Rift, one of the most geologically fascinating regions in the United States and Canada. Sources/Usage. Public Domain. Public Domain. Explore Search. Minerals; Geology; minerals; Mid-Continent;Jul 30, 2018 · The graphic, inset, shows gravity mapping done of the Midcontinent Rift System by the U.S. Geological Survey: “MRS volcanic rocks (shown as warmer, reddish colors) that occupy the center of the rift are more dense than the MRS sedimentary rocks (shown as cooler bluish colors) that flank both sides of the volcanics.” The North American Midcontinent Rift System (MRS) is a major magmatic continental rift that stretches approximately 2200 km from Kansas northeast to the Lake Superior region, where it curves southward and is inferred to extend into lower Michigan (Figure 1; Ojakangas et al., 2001a).Because much of the MRS lies beneath Phanerozoic and surficial cover, it was first recognized by a series of ...The Midcontinent Rift System is a 1.1 Ga failed continental rift in the Midwestern United States and Canada (Fig. 1).This area contains ~ 1 - 2 × 10 6 km 3 of mafic igneous rocks (Hutchinson et al. 1990; Merino et al. 2013).Rift-related volcanism includes voluminous tholeiitic flood basalt flows, minor picritic flows, and some intermediate-felsic volcanic rocks (Green 1982, 2002).J. B. Paces and J. D. Miller, Jr., “Precise U-Pb Ages of Duluth Complex and Related Mafic Intrusions, Northeastern Minnesota: Geochronological Insights to Physical, Petrogenetic, Paleomagnetic, and Tectonomagmatic Processes Associated with the 1.1 Ga Midcontinent Rift System,” J. Geophys. Res. 98, 997–14013 (1993).The Midcontinent rift system (MCR) is a 2,000 km long arc-shaped feature extending from Kansas to Michigan via Lake Superior. The MCR is responsible for the most prominent gravity feature in North America and is 1.11--1.09 Ga in age. The purpose of this paper is to discuss possible southern extensions of the MCR.The Keweenaw fault is perhaps the most significant fault associated with the Midcontinent Rift System of the north-central United States. The fault, parallel to the south edge of the rift, has ...Between 1091 and 1098 Ma, most of a 15- to 20-km thickness of dominantly tholeiitic basalt erupted in the Midcontinent Rift System of the Lake Superior region, North America. The Portage Lake Volcanics in Michigan, which are the youngest MRS flood basalts, fall into distinctly high- and low-TiO 2 types having different liquid lines of descent ...The Texaco 1 Poersch well in Kansas (11,300 ft TD) was the first significant exploration test of the Mid-Continent Rift System (MRS). An upper succession of rift-related rocks (2846-7429 ft) contains approximately 90% mafic igneous rocks with minor pegmatites and 10% oxidized siltstone and arkose.The Keweenaw fault system along Lake Superior’s south shore in Michigan, USA is one of the most significant fault systems associated with North America’s Midcontinent Rift System. Reverse slip has thrust Portage Lake Volcanics (ca. 1.1 Ga) southeastward over Jacobsville Sandstone (ca. 1.0 Ga).Assessment of the Platinum-Group Element Resources in Mafic-Ultramafic Igneous Intrusions of the Midcontinent Rift System, Lake Superior Region: An earlier phase (2012-2016) of our project focused on conducting and publishing an assessment of the Duluth Complex and related mafic-ultramafic intrusions in the 1.1 Ga Midcontinent Rift System in ...The Midcontinent rift is a Middle Proterozoic continental rift which records about 15 m.y. of extension, subsidence, and voluminous volcanism in the period 1109-1094 Ma in the central part of North America.Oct 28, 2016 · The Midcontinent Rift is an ancient rift system that could have split the country into two parts a billion years ago. In this live interview at the Sheldon Concert Hall in St. Louis, geologist Michael Wysession discusses how seismologists are using data from earthquakes and gravity measurements to characterize this underground geological scar. The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Scientific and Technical InformationJun 26, 2023 · Both sites are located along the 1200-mile Midcontinent Rift System, a tectonic fissure through the middle of North America. Building A Hydrogen Market. The Keweenaw fault system along Lake Superior's south shore in Michigan, USA is one of the most significant fault systems associated with North America's Midcontinent Rift System.This project is focused on the sediment-hosted copper deposits of the Midcontinent Rift, with three main objectives: 1) describe the ore mineralogy and geochemistry of the White Pine and Copperwood deposits, 2) evaluate whether hydrothermal alteration in footwall rocks can be used as a vector towards ore, and 3) provide a careful scoping study to evaluate whether unconventional platinum-group ...Thor Volcanic Group of the Midcontinent Rift System. Most solid lines around and within the MRS mark faults rather than lithologic contacts. Precambrian geology modified from Anderson (1988; 1992). of the well and as deep below the Precambrian surface as possible in order to avoid surface samples that have been strongly weathered.The Midcontinent Rift system and surrounding Precambrian rocks are known to host highly significant mineral resources. Our project objectives are to increase understanding of this system through the integration of new and legacy geophysical data with geochemical and borehole data, map the lithology and structure of PreCambrian …The Midcontinent Rift System (MRS) is a Late Mesoproterozoic (∼1.1 Ga) sequence of volcanic and sedimentary rocks exposed in the Lake Superior Region of North America. The MRS continues to be the focus of much research due to its economic mineral deposits as well as its archive of Precambrian life and tectonic processes. In order to constrain the post-depositional thermal history of the MRS ...The Midcontinent Rift's present structure results from the combined effects of a sequence of rifting, volcanism, sedimentation, subsidence, compression, erosion, and any later effects (Stein et al., 2015; S. Stein et al., 2018). The large positive gravity anomalies along the MCR primarily reflect the large volume of high-density igneous rocks ...Picrites and tholeiites from the Mamainse Point Formation, a 5.3 km thick section of Keweenawan (1100 Ma) volcanic and sedimentary fill on the eastern flank of the central portion of the Midcontinent rift system, contain a nearly continuous record of rift magmatic activity. Picrites occur primarily in the lowermost two units of the formation. In …The Midcontinent Rift System (MCRS) is a 1.1 billion-year-old failed rift system that spans much of the North American continental interior. The MCRS is exposed at Lake Superior and is buried in ...The Midcontinent Rift System (MRS) is a Late Mesoproterozoic (∼1.1Ga) sequence of volcanic and sedimentary rocks exposed in the Lake Superior Region of North America. The MRS continues to be the ...1 Introduction [2] The Mid-Continent Rift System (MCRS) is one of the most prominent features on the Bouguer gravity map of the central United States (Figure 1).The rift formed at ~1.1 Ga, recorded by two pulses of magmatic activity lasting ~15 Myr [White, 1997], making it one of the most extensive paleorifts in the world [Hinze et al., 1997].True amplitude processing of The Great Lakes International Multidisciplinary Program on Crustal Evolution seismic reflection data from the Midcontinent Rift System of North America shows large differ...Midcontinent Rift System. Save.The Midcontinent Rift System (MRS) is a Middle Proterozoic failed rift system that stretches from eastern Lake Superior to central Kansas. Over most of its length, it is characterized by a central horst (dominated by mafic volcanic rocks) flanked by a series of clastic-filled basins that thicken towards the horst in the half-graben ...Chemical and mineralogical heterogeneity in the basal zone of the Partridge River Intrusion: implications for the origin of Cu-Ni sulfide mineralization in the Duluth Complex, midcontinent rift system. Edward M. Ripley 1, Nur Iskandar Taib 1 nAff2, Chusi Li 1 & … Craig H. Moore 1 Show authorsThe Mid-Continent rift system can be traced by the Mid-Continent geophysical anomaly (MGA) from the surface exposure of the Keweenawan Supergroup in the Lake Superior basin southwest in the subsurface through Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, and Kansas. Outcrop and well penetrations of the late rift Keweenawan sedimentary rocks reveal ...The faults responsible for the monocline are newly recognized components of a well-known regional fault system that partly closed and inverted the Midcontinent rift system. Resetting of biotite ages on the upper plate of the faults indicates that faulting and uplift occurred at about 1060 +/−20 Ma and followed very shortly after extension ...Metallogeny of the midcontinent rift system of North America. USGS Publications Warehouse. Nicholson, S.W.; Cannon, W.F.; Schulz, K.J. 1992-01-01. The 1.1 Ga ...The Midcontinent Rift System (MRS) is an approximately 2,200 km curvilinear Mesoproterozoic rift that stretches from Kansas northeast to the Lake Superior region where it turns southeast and extends through lower Michigan. 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