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Not Quite Sunset at the Blackrocks

Presque Isle Park of Marquette, Michigan, is a site of summer recreation -- splashing, relaxing, even cliff diving -- and all-year sightseeing and admiration. A...
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Presque Isle Park of Marquette, Michigan, is a site of summer recreation -- splashing, relaxing, even cliff diving -- and all-year sightseeing and admiration. A peninsula on a peninsula, this outcropping of land juts into famously icy Lake Superior, so divers would do best to be aware of the temperature before leaping.The landscape here, very different from the well-known sandstone cliffs of Pictured Rocks to the east and elsewhere along the Greatest Lake's coast, reveals much older metamorphosed igneous peridotite -- the geologic formation that allows locals to give Presque Isle the apt nickname "Blackrocks."
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