The 1,000-foot-deep secret under the Great Plains that took millions of years to build
Beneath America’s seemingly simple Great Plains lies a colossal underground freshwater body, the High Plains aquifer, larger than California. This “invisible ocean,” primarily the Ogallala formation, sustains the region’s fertility and agriculture When travelling through the middle of America by automobile, the environment seems almost mesmerisingly simplistic. This is an area defined by amber-coloured fields…
