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In 1933, Professors Melton and Schriever from the Univeristy of Oklahoma wondered whether the Carolina Bays were meteorite scars. The discovery of the Nebraska Basins made it possible to triangulate the origin of the projectiles that made the bays by the Great Lakes. The Glacier Ice Impact Hypothesis proposes that the bays originated from secondary impacts of glacier ice ejected by an extraterrestrial impact on the Laurentide Ice Sheet.
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
In 1933, Professors Melton and Schriever from the Univeristy of Oklahoma wondered whether the Carolina Bays were meteorite scars. The discovery of the Nebraska Basins made it possible to triangulate the origin of the projectiles that made the bays by the Great Lakes. The Glacier Ice Impact Hypothesis proposes that the bays originated from secondary impacts of glacier ice ejected by an extraterrestrial impact on the Laurentide Ice Sheet.
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
