Misquah Hills
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The Misquah Hills are a range of mountains in northeastern Minnesota, in the United States. They are located in or near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness within Superior National Forest. Eagle
Misquah Hills from the summit of Lima Mountain
Eagle Mountain
Duluth Complex
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The Duluth Complex, the related Beaver Bay Complex, and the associated North Shore Volcanic Group are rock formations which comprise much of the basement bedrock of the northeastern part of the U.S. s
Misquah Hills
…the second-highest range of the Canadian Shield in the US, after the Adirondack Mountains. The bedrock of the Misquah Hills is a granophyre within the Duluth Complex, a relatively recent addition to the larger Precambrian rock formations of the Canadian Shield. This complex was formed during the Midcontinent Rift…
The Sawtooth Mountains rising from Lake Superior
North Shore Volcanics: Palisade Head (foreground) and Shovel Point (midground), both rhyolitic extrusions of the Midcontinent Rift; Sawtooth Mountains on horizon
Layered gabbro near Duluth
Duluth's Enger Tower, constructed of local Keweenawan rocks, atop a gabbro knob (foreground)