Flamingo Bay - shocked quartz and inverted stratigraphy @Antonio_Zamora
Flamingo Bay - shocked quartz and inverted stratigraphy  @Antonio_Zamora
Uploaded June 2024 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
Flamingo Bay in South Carolina contains shocked-fractured quartz indicating that the bay experienced high pressure during its formation. The sandy rim of the bay also shows inverted stratigraphy, which corresponds to an overturned flap and adds support for the impact origin of the Carolina Bays.

Video with Chris Moore: youtu.be/iE76CJxLTW8

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

LiDAR Visualization Tool for Google Earth by Michael Davias. ovoidbasinsurvey.cintos.org

Python program for fitting ellipses to the Carolina Bays by the least squares method.
github.com/citpeks/Carolina-Bays-least-squares-ellipse-fitting
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Flamingo Bay - shocked quartz and inverted stratigraphy

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