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  • Geologic formation could hold clues to melting glacier floodwaters

    Dec 23, 2015 11:00 am by Liz AhlbergResearch
    Photo of Illinois State Geological Society scientists Timothy Larson, Scott Elrick and Andrew Phillips, by L. Brian Stauffer

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    • Photo of Illinois State Geological Society scientists Timothy Larson, Scott Elrick and Andrew Phillips, by L. Brian Stauffer

    Geologists investigating an unusual landform in southern Illinois expected to find seismic origins, but instead found the aftermath of rushing floodwaters from melting Midwestern glaciers after the last ice age.