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...

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:
   / antoniozamora-carolina-bays  


Recommended Videos:

   • Carolina Bays Liquefaction   - Carolina Bays Liquefaction - Antonio Zamora

   • Carolina Bays - Time of Emplacement   - Carolina Bays Timeframe - Antonio Zamora

   • Ice impacts on Viscous and Solid Targ...   - Ice Impacts - Antonio Zamora

   • Younger Dryas Impact on Ice   - Younger Dryas Impact - Antonio Zamora

   • Carolina Bays Review / Trail of Resea...   - Carolina Bays Review w/ Randall Carlson

   • "Ubiquitous Catastrophic Demise" / Fr...   - Megafauna Extinction w/ Randall Carlson

   • Flood Catastrophe or Overkill? YDB Ex...   - Overkill Hypothesis

   • Carolina Bays' Research - Historical ...   - Carolina Bays Research Part 1

   • Carolina Bays' Research - Historical ...   - Carolina Bays Research Part 2

   • Carolina Bays' Research - Historical ...   - Carolina Bays Research Part 3


Recommended Articles:

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

https://science.howstuffworks.com/env... - Mainstream Opinion

https://books.google.com/books?id=uH7... - Secrets of the Carolina Bays

https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/200... - Evidence for Extraterrestrial Impact

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases.... - Climate Change - Megafauna Extinctions Linked

https://www.pnas.org/content/117/46/2... - Overkill and Glacial History


00:00 - Intro
01:18 - Carolina Bays Overview
03:29 - How did they form?
05:01 - When were they created?
07:51 - Megafauna Extinction at Younger Dryas
09:15 - Nebraska Rainwater Basins
10:22 - Outro