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The elliptical geometry of the bays implies that they originated as inclined conical cavities or penetration funnels. The bays are radially oriented toward the Great Lakes. For this reason, the Glacier ice impact hypothesis proposes that the Carolina Bays were created by oblique impacts of glacier ice ejected by one or more extraterrestrial impacts on the Laurentide Ice Sheet. If this is true, the Carolina Bays formed contemporaneously. This episode discusses a method of dating the emplacement of the Carolina Bays using the geologic law of superposition and the established dates for the advance and retreat of the Laurentide Ice Sheet.
The Neglected Carolina Bays: Ubiquitous Geological Evidence of a Cataclysm.
Amazon: amzn.to/3uTRDsZ
A. Zamora, A model for the geomorphology of the Carolina Bays, Geomorphology, 282, 209–216. (2017), DOI 10.1016/j.geomorph.2017.01.019
doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2017.01.019
Carolina Bay Survey. LiDAR Visualization Tool using Google Earth by Michael Davias. cbaysurvey.cintos.org
Python programs for least squares fitting of ellipses.
github.com/citpeks/Carolina-Bays-least-squares-ellipse-fitting
The elliptical geometry of the bays implies that they originated as inclined conical cavities or penetration funnels. The bays are radially oriented toward the Great Lakes. For this reason, the Glacier ice impact hypothesis proposes that the Carolina Bays were created by oblique impacts of glacier ice ejected by one or more extraterrestrial impacts on the Laurentide Ice Sheet. If this is true, the Carolina Bays formed contemporaneously. This episode discusses a method of dating the emplacement of the Carolina Bays using the geologic law of superposition and the established dates for the advance and retreat of the Laurentide Ice Sheet.
The Neglected Carolina Bays: Ubiquitous Geological Evidence of a Cataclysm.
Amazon: amzn.to/3uTRDsZ
A. Zamora, A model for the geomorphology of the Carolina Bays, Geomorphology, 282, 209–216. (2017), DOI 10.1016/j.geomorph.2017.01.019
doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2017.01.019
Carolina Bay Survey. LiDAR Visualization Tool using Google Earth by Michael Davias. cbaysurvey.cintos.org
Python programs for least squares fitting of ellipses.
github.com/citpeks/Carolina-Bays-least-squares-ellipse-fitting
