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There are Carolina Bays in Virginia, but many of them are on hard ground. Glacier ice boulders impacting this hard surface were not able to create the flat elliptical features found on the bays in North or South Carolina.

The Neglected Carolina Bays: Ubiquitous Geological Evidence of a Cataclysm.
Amazon: amzn.to/4dqrcRY

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
lidar-hrtm.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

Fit ellipses using a web browser
pyscript.com/@ellipses123/ellipse-fitting/latest