Lake Superior exists because, ~1.1 billion years ago, North America failed to rip in half. This summer, I traveled to the lake to see what kind of stories that failure left behind, and I ended up learning a whole lot about the Midcontinent Rift, basalt, copper mining, and geology.

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Main Sources:
Rift:
https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...
http://geo.msu.edu/extra/geogmich/rif...
https://sites.northwestern.edu/sethst...
https://www.nps.gov/articles/parkscie...
https://phys.org/news/2017-12-geologi...
http://www.geo.mtu.edu/great_lakes/MCRS/

Copper:
2017: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-163X/7/10/1...
Lovely Plain-Text Overview: https://www.michigan.gov/documents/de...
http://www.minsocam.org/msa/collector...
https://www.mindat.org/article.php/25...
http://www.geo.mtu.edu/KeweenawGeoher...
http://riogrande.ees.nmt.edu/outside/...