The Great Lakes were formed through a combination of geological and glacial processes spanning hundreds of millions of years. Around 300 to 200 million years ago, the Cape Verde hotspot ...

The discovery of the fact that the Great Lakes originate from a geological hotspot beneath the ancient supercontinent Pangaea presents a major advancement in the comprehension of the geological ...

A hotspot that now lies in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean was once under the Great Lakes, and may explain why they formed where they did. The Great Lakes formed where they did 20,000 years ago ...

A January 2025 cold wave plunged Chicago into subzero temperatures, initially without snow. By late January, snowfall ...

Environmental restoration and research projects swept up in widespread confusion caused by White House effort to freeze ...

The Great Lakes owe their origin to an ancient hotspot that existed beneath Pangaea 300 million years ago, researchers have revealed. This discovery sheds light on how Earth's geological history ...

Aquatic optics support a variety of applications, including remote sensing and environmental change research, in the Aquatic Chemistry Laboratory located in the Great Lakes Research Center. Through ...

You would find yourself surrounded by a 430 million-year-old network of coral reefs that once flourished throughout the Great Lakes region and then became buried by thousands of feet of salt; the ...