Uploaded February 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago

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The origin of the Carolina Bays has spawned many diverse ideas about their formation, including that they originated as fish nests. The elliptical geomorphology of the bays indicates that they originated as inclined conical cavities, but this video offers the tongue-in-cheek idea that sparrows taking sand baths created the bays.

The Neglected Carolina Bays: Ubiquitous Geological Evidence of a Cataclysm.
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Python programs for least squares fitting of ellipses.
github.com/citpeks/Carolina-Bays-least-squares-ellipse-fitting