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Roadside Geology of Mississippi

Roadside Geology of Mississippi

Galicki, Stan
Schmitz, Darrel

Paperback

Series: Roadside Geology

GeologySouth

Publisher Price: $24.00

ISBN10: 087842671X
ISBN13: 9780878426713
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Published: Oct 15 2016
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
It's a little-known fact, but Mississippi has a volcano. True, it's buried under 2,600 feet of sediment, but it was red hot and active roughly 79 to 69 million years ago, and evidence of its bulging remains are visible in the Jackson area.
Mississippi emerged along the edge of a massive tear that formed as tectonics tried to rip the continent asunder. The full rift was never realized, but like a crack in a foundation, everything built on top of it has been affected. The failed rift became a linear basin, stretching from Illinois to the Gulf of Mexico, and for millions upon millions of years the sea rose and fell in this embayment, leaving behind tens of thousands of feet of sediment. The Mighty Mississippi River, one of state's youngest and most dynamic features, follows the rift's contours today.

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