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iPaper_embed(’79972389′, ‘key-y6alm3f9ndc57vgfupt’, ’600′, ’450′); But some bays have no peat! “Analysis reveals that, unlike typical, peat-rich Carolina Bays, Howard Bay essentially lacks peat, diatoms, pollen, and other organic materials, and it also lacks substantial silt and clay. That suggests this Bay never held water for a sustained length of time. Furthermore, the presence of extensive [...] Davias Carolina Bay GSA Poster(function() { var scribd = document.createElement(“script”); scribd.type = “text/javascript”; scribd.async = true; scribd.src = “http://www.scribd.com/javascripts/embed_code/inject.js”; var s = document.getElementsByTagName(“script”)[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(scribd, s); })(); Davias Carolina Bay Presentation(function() { var scribd = document.createElement(“script”); scribd.type = “text/javascript”; scribd.async = true; scribd.src = “http://www.scribd.com/javascripts/embed_code/inject.js”; var s = document.getElementsByTagName(“script”)[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(scribd, s); })(); Davias Carolina Bay Presentation Notes(function() { var [...] Wow. Michael Davias at Perigee Zero keeps stripping the hide off the ball for Carolina Bays. He has investigated, identified and, most importantly — visualized and shared — some extraordinary info on the range and character of bays in the Southeast and Midwest. The screenshot below only scratches the surface of what Mike [...] I had the good fortune to meet Michael Davias, the author of the Perigee Zero website, at the AGU Fall meeting last December. Mike has taken the Bay phenomena on-line better than anyone — including me. He has also been fearless in his (well considered) speculation. I have long intended to get Perigee Zero properly linked and posted on the Tusk. I am particularly interested in posting Mike’s careful documentary images of Carolina Bays in the the Midwest [do not miss his comprehensive page on CarolinaCornhusker bays here]. These features, entirely true to their southern neighbors in orientation and dimension, are also entirely absent from the long debate over the origin of Carolina Bays. In fact, the scholarship on the distribution and orientation of these features seems to have died long ago. Incredibly, it is not unusual to this day to see Dr Prouty of UNC’s old ink drawing from the 1950′s used to demonstrate their range (, or the also moldy Eyton and Parkhurst orientation map of 1974. SEE BELOW By using LiDAR, Allen West, me and, most expertly, Mike Davias, have shown the old conception of a Carolina Bay to be far more narrow than nature actually presents. Any theory of their origin must account for thier extraordinary regularity across half a continent. I will put some more Perigee Zero stuff up later. But, to get you started, below are grabs from a superb Google Earth KMZ file from Perigee Zero: CLICK HERE TO EXAMINE THESE FEATURES
A couple of months ago I was having some fun with Google Earth Pro and put together this little video demonstrating the ubiquity of Carolina Bays in Eastern North Carolina. This is one of those projects where you swear you will return and do a “second draft” in the near future — and never do. [...] Here’s an excellent mash-up of bay LiDAR images Rick Firestone used in a recent article he wrote for the Journal of Cosmology, The Case for the Younger Dryas Why is it excellent? Because perhaps it will inspire people to take this phenomena a little more [...] The excitement when this scientific paper was published in 2001 was old news to me, really. I had first heard from William Topping way back in 1998. He was interested in Carolina Bays. Terribly interested. So was another scientist he said, Dr. Richard Firestone. I hit the search on Alta Vista and lo and behold, Firestone is indeed a San Francisco nuclear scientist — for the government. That was encouraging because I had written a speculative essay in 1997 regarding the formation of Carolina Bays and these guys seemed interested.
Firestone and Topping had stumbled on my Carolina Bay essay, among several other early websites sites of the type, and discovered a long history of speculation about the bays — and some published materials — that matched their modern findings. Importantly, however, none of the previous speculation, debate or evidence had involved an archeological site, as theirs had. This was important. |
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