Catastrophe and Cartography - Carolina Bays

The Carolina Bays are a collection of thousands of elliptical depressions that cover the southeastern United States, from Mississippi to New Jersey. With the help of LIDAR technology, we can now see these Carolina Bays in high resolution in Google Earth.

As usual, there is a big controversy regarding the creation of the Carolina Bays. The mainstream opinion usually attributes their creation to a combination of wind and water erosion. Basically, lakes were formed a long time ago, and through the slow process of wind acting on the lake water, the elliptical shape was formed. Similar lakes are found up in Russia and Canada today, near the north pole. These are called "thermokarst lakes". (If you use Google Earth to view them, they are pretty fascinating!)

However, as you study the unique circumstances surrounding the Carolina Bays, the mainstream view does not hold up under scrutiny. Hence, a new theory was proposed, chiefly by Antonio Zamora. He argues that the Carolina Bays were caused by chunks of ice raining down from the atmosphere, after a comet impacted the Laurentide Ice Sheet over the Saginaw Bay area roughly 12,900 years ago.

If a comet were to hit the ice sheet at a low angle, then it could have launched millions of chunks of ice into the atmosphere. Upon re-entry, these ice chunks would have landed all throughout the Southeastern United States. Since they are relatively soft, being made of ice (not rock), they would then create the elliptical craters on the unconsolidated ground, but not on the rocky terrain.

Others have proposed a comet / asteroid exploding in mid-air. The resulting fragments would shower the region and create the elliptical bays.

If the Carolina Bays were created in a catastrophic event, this would help to explain the sudden extinction of the megafauna in North America during the Younger Dryas.

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If you'd like to explore the Carolina Bays in LIDAR, you'll need the standalone version of Google Earth:

https://www.google.com/earth/download/gep/agree.html?hl=en-GB

Here's the link for the KMZ file to be used in Google Earth: 

http://cbaysurvey.cintos.org/

** After you've downloaded the KMZ file, launch Google Earth. Go to File - Open... then choose the KMZ file. The Carolina Bays filter should now be active!

Antonio Zamora's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/AntonioZamora-Carolina-Bays

Recommended Videos:

 https://youtu.be/8BqgJUo3QPw - Carolina Bays Liquefaction - Antonio Zamora 

https://youtu.be/wr8mesSiApg - Carolina Bays Timeframe - Antonio Zamora 

https://youtu.be/u9dQEg45Ty0 - Ice Impacts - Antonio Zamora

https://youtu.be/Q0MsB8pN1uY - Younger Dryas Impact - Antonio Zamora 

https://youtu.be/Q60IHvnzI4w - Carolina Bays Review w/ Randall Carlson 

https://youtu.be/LRmjTtm1ttU - Megafauna Extinction w/ Randall Carlson 

https://youtu.be/UWD4Z4c976s - Overkill Hypothesis

https://youtu.be/w-U1Nnsxdk8 - Carolina Bays Research Part 1

https://youtu.be/ISpnWg5txM0 - Carolina Bays Research Part 2

https://youtu.be/4l2WoBJvUjI - Carolina Bays Research Part 3

Recommended Articles: 

http://cintos.org/CarolinaBays/index.html - Enigmatic Carolina Bays

https://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/earth/geophysics/carolina-bays.htm - Mainstream Opinion

https://books.google.com/books?id=uH7_DAAAQBAJ&lpg=PT57&ots=CiJ2SataWr&dq=otto muck carolina bays&pg=PT57&fbclid=IwAR3w_gCi3oNqDLQckEzAshXPw0kGJKZKefLUzQV9_7vY1WhYvK1pTk7Cx2A#v=onepage&q&f=true - Secrets of the Carolina Bays

https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2007AGUSMPP42A..05H/abstract - Evidence for Extraterrestrial Impact

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/02/210216083102.htm#:~:text=A new study suggests that,their entrance into the Americas.&text=But by around 10,000 years,known as megafauna, had disappeared. - Climate Change - Megafauna Extinctions Linked

https://www.pnas.org/content/117/46/28555 - Overkill and Glacial History