Media coverage on ancient hotspot revealed under Great Lakes

Our new paper “Revealing the Cape Verde Hotspot Track Across the Great Lakes” is now published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.

The study was led by Aibing Li and Zhongmin Tao of University of Houston. Jonny Wu and Karen Fischer (Brown University) are co-authors. Links to some media coverage is below:

LiveScience: “Scientists find hidden ‘hotspot’ that helped create the Great Lakes before North America even existed”

Newsweek: “Scientists Reveal Hidden Secret That Helped Make the Great Lakes”