Lake Superior itself is actually one of the earth's younger features. It only formed around 10,000 years ago, which is relatively young in context with other lakes and oceans.

Geochemist Alexandra Phillips has sulfur on her mind. The yellow element is a vital macronutrient, and she’s trying to understand how it cycles through ...

Claim to fame: Lake Superior agates are the oldest agates on earth, formed 1.2 billion years ago. The next oldest are the Montana moss agates, a mere 370 million years old. Photo by Todd Zawistowski ...

Research in Lake Superior reveals how sulfur might have cycled in Earth's ancient oceans. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2023 / 11 / 231116150905.htm ...

The Birth and Structure of North America’s Hidden Rift. The Midcontinent Rift stretches in a horseshoe shape from Kansas northward to Lake Superior and then south again to Michigan. At its peak ...

Copper’s allure has endured for millennia. Both ancient and modern mines for the extremely useful metal abound in North America’s Lake Superior region; long before modern miners extracted the ...

The wreckage of a 244-foot merchant ship that sank in 1940 has been found in Lake Superior. The Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society, along with shipwreck researcher Dan Fountain, announced ...