| OokieWonderslug |
| (Tourist) |
| 03/26/06 08:42 PM |
Re: Comprehensive SouthEastern US Crater catalog
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Well, we know that water flows along land contours, and I cannot see how it would scour out almost perfect eliptical bays, especially where some bays have overlapped others. I think it is more likely that a shower of comet fragments falling in clusters from the northwest at an angle to the surface might have created the anomalies.
Show me a shotgun pattern of eliptical craters anywhere else in the solar system.
Water turbulance can do some mighty strange things. If these were craters, there would be irridium dust in them. There would be shocked quartz in the area. The sediments under the bays would be depressed. Instead we don't find any of that. In order to form a crater you have to expend a lot of energy. That energy won't form an oval crater. Not a shallow one that doesn't mess up ones right beside them either. It's just not possible. I'd like there to be half a million small craters to investigate around here. It would be so cool. But that's not the case.
These are simple erosion structures caused by water running off the land after an enormous tsunami. They point in the direction the water was going from/to.
An asteroid might have cause the tsunami, but that's all it did. I lean toward a collapse of the continental shelf about 200 miles off the coast near Savannah, GA. That was a lot of land to go down. It had to have had an effect.