Menominee Crack
Appearance
The Menominee Crack is an unusual geological pop-up feature that was created rapidly one morning in October 2010.
Location and description
[edit]Located in Menominee, Michigan the crack stretches through the woods, is 361 feet long, over half a meter wide in some places, and up to 1.7 meters deep. In 2013, a group of Michigan Tech researchers led by Joshua Richardson began research on the crack. The researchers concluded that the crack is the first recorded example of such a popup without an obvious trigger. A description and analysis of the event is published in Seismological Research Letters.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Richardson, J. P., Pennington, W. D., Waite, G. P., Galambus, M., Lanza, F., & Bowman, L. (2016). Menominee Crack: Bedrock Pop‐Up Event near Menominee, Michigan. Seismological Research Letters.
- http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0211/Michigan-s-bizarre-Menominee-crack-continues-to-baffle-scientists
- https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/02/the-earth-cracked-apart-in-a-forest-and-it-made-a-sound/
- http://phys.org/news/2016-02-mysterious-menominee-unusual-geological-pop-up.html
- http://www.mtu.edu/news/stories/2016/february/menominee-crack-geological-pop-up-structure.html
- http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/19861/20160211/menominee-crack-michigan-researchers-finally-identify-mysterious-pop-up-feature.htm