Final inversion of the Midcontinent Rift during the Rigolet Phase of the Grenvillian Orogeny

• Main Authors: Hodgin, Eben B, Swanson-Hysell, Nicholas L, DeGraff, James M, Kylander-Clark, Andrew RC, Schmitz, Mark D, Turner, Andrew C, Zhang, Yiming, Stolper, Daniel A
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 2022
• Subjects: Earth Sciences; Geochemistry & Geophysics; Rigolet
• Online Access: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0rh2r477

Despite being a prominent continental-scale feature, the late Mesoproterozoic North American Midcontinent Rift did not result in the break-up of Laurentia, and subsequently underwent structural inversion. The timing of inversion is critical for constraining far-field effects of orogenesis and proces...