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OokieWonderslug Tourist Reged: 03/11/06 Posts: 7 Re: Comprehensive SouthEastern US Crater catalog       03/13/06 06:42 AM Edit   Reply   Quote   Quick Reply   Those are Carolina Bays. They are a product of water, not meteors. It is possible that a huge asteroid hitting the ocean was the indirect cause of them, but they are not craters. They have been excavated and there are no extraterrestrial remains there that would be the result of an impact. What happened was something caused a tsunami a long time ago. This tsunami made the one on 12/26 look like a ripple. There is some evidence that it went as far inland as the foot of the Appalachians at the NC/VA border. The sandhills, the enormous sandbars in the piedmont, the carolina bays, etc are all evidence of one mind bending tsunami. I don't know what caused it, but if you look off the east coast you'll see where a giant chunk of the continental shelf has collapsed and sunk down. I'd bet that had something to do with it. Something the size of Massachusetts sinking all at once is bound to have thrown up a lot of water. When the water retreated it scowered out the bays. If you look at pics of where the tsunami hit asia you can see smaller versions of the bays here and there. No meteor needed. In fact, meteors don't carve out shallow oval depressions like the bays. They are completely different animals. Post Extras

Entire topic Subject Posted by Posted on Comprehensive SouthEastern US Crater catalog ThomasFlores 12/06/05 01:41 PM Re: Comprehensive SouthEastern US Crater catalog GeoAnthro   07/23/08 11:13 AM Definitely NOT craters, but MORE interesting! AndyFlow   04/08/08 12:20 PM Re: Definitely NOT craters, but MORE interesting! GordonMoore   06/26/08 05:15 PM Re: Comprehensive SouthEastern US Crater catalog Will_in_NC   01/29/08 07:56 PM Re: Comprehensive SouthEastern US Crater catalog GeoAnthro   07/23/08 11:17 AM Re: Comprehensive SouthEastern US Crater catalog john2242b   04/13/08 05:10 AM Re: Comprehensive SouthEastern US Crater catalog biged5275   05/01/08 06:40 PM Re: Comprehensive SouthEastern US Crater catalog Lawrence_Cahoon   05/20/08 08:17 AM Re: Comprehensive SouthEastern US Crater catalog Hill   05/21/08 02:30 PM Data on the Carolina Bays in Cyumberland County john2242b   11/14/07 04:52 AM Re: Comprehensive SouthEastern US Crater catalog aluode   12/21/06 06:26 PM Re: Comprehensive SouthEastern US Crater catalog Cintos   01/24/07 06:37 PM Re: Comprehensive SouthEastern US Crater catalog FrenchyBuddy   07/08/06 05:05 PM Re: Comprehensive SouthEastern US Crater catalog Cintos   03/26/06 10:47 PM Re: Comprehensive SouthEastern US Crater catalog mercforhire   12/06/05 04:21 PM Re: Comprehensive SouthEastern US Crater catalog ThomasFlores   12/07/05 08:54 AM Re: Comprehensive SouthEastern US Crater catalog ssehnert   10/18/07 11:37 AM Re: Comprehensive SouthEastern US Crater catalog Jericho4l   06/22/06 02:00 PM Re: Comprehensive SouthEastern US Crater catalog jeffryv   12/06/05 02:26 PM Superficial features. plockamy   08/30/06 09:45 AM Re: Comprehensive SouthEastern US Crater catalog ThomasFlores   12/07/05 08:30 AM Re: Comprehensive SouthEastern US Crater catalog OokieWonderslug   03/13/06 06:42 AM Re: Comprehensive SouthEastern US Crater catalog lesnorsmorffels   03/25/06 09:12 AM Re: Comprehensive SouthEastern US Crater catalog OokieWonderslug   03/26/06 08:42 PM Re: Comprehensive SouthEastern US Crater catalog mweathers   09/04/06 01:18 PM Re: Comprehensive SouthEastern US Crater catalog Hill   09/04/06 02:28 PM Re: Comprehensive SouthEastern US Crater catalog 92chief   09/13/06 01:27 PM Re: Comprehensive SouthEastern US Crater catalog datii   09/08/07 07:36 AM

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