The central midcontinent region of the United States-including Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, northern parts of Arkansas, and Tennessee-is a relatively stable cratonic-platform domain where Precambrian crust is overlain by a veneer of Phanerozoic sedimentary strata (e.g., Whitmeyer & Karlstrom, 2007). Epeirogenic movements and localized faulting affected the region during the Phanerozoic (e.g.,
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