Modern Life Depends on This Extinct Rock | Banded Iron Formations

Key Topics:

  • Jasper Knob, Negaunee, Michigan

  • What is banded iron formation?

  • What banded iron formation is made of

  • How BIFs may have formed, and why it’s a mystery

  • How old is Jasper Knob

  • Why banded iron formations are so important to the modern iron industry

  • Why BIFs may have gone “extinct”

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