Google Earth Community: US Southwest Playas: oriented Carolina bays?

Another in my continuing saga of enigmatic geological landforms: The Playas of the US South West Highlands.

What are Playa Lakes?

There are an estimated 50,000 of these landforms covering an area from Texas to Nebraska. Visualy and geologically, these are seen by me as being assiciated with the Carolina bay
enigmatic landforms. I have not identified a scientific discussion attempting to relate the Playas with Carolina bay geologcically. Is anyone here in the GE communitty familiar with these?

The Keyhole file has placemarks and overlays exploring a number of Texas and New Mexico Playas visible in Google Earth. The overlays are the standard the Perigee Zero Ejecta shape , a simple teardrop ovoid. As presented, the Playas are primarily oriented to the NNW. Again, I have not identified any acknowledgment of their obvious common orientation. Other suspected PZ ejecta landforms are present in the area which show different alignments (ENE to WSW?); these will be evaluated in the future.

The Perigee Zero working Hypothesis is that these oriented landforms represent the manifestations of ejecta emplacements. As ejecta, these landforms are interpreted as having been lofted from the PZ Impact crater at : Big Horn Basin , Wyoming. GE Paths are offered, tracing the proposed trajectories from the southern high plains Playas back towards Wyoming. These are not adjusted for the Coriolis Force effect, which may explain the slight misalignments presented.

My Perigee: Zero GE Community posts:

Mima Mounds Enigma
Oriented Lakes & Landforms in Argentina
100 km long structure near Algarrobo Argentina
Perth, Australia loves Ovals!
Oriented lakes in South Africa

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