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Maastrichtian birth of the Ancestral Mississippi River system


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Geology: Tiny zircon crystals help trace the birth of the mighty 

Mississippi By Dale Gnidovec, The Columbus Dispatch, Nov 11, 2018

https://www.dispatch.com/news/20181111/geology-tiny-zircon-crystals-help-trace-birth-of-mighty-mississippi

 

Potter-McIntyre, S.L., Breeden, J.R. and Malone, D.H., 2018. A 

Maastrichtian birth of the Ancestral Mississippi River system: 

Evidence from the U-Pb detrital zircon geochronology of the 

McNairy Sandstone, Illinois, USA. Cretaceous Research.

Volume 91, November 2018, Pages 71-79

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195667117305414

 

Yours,

 

Paul H.

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