[baynut]

Very interesting reference, Ren. Could you could look it up and post the author and publication of the work (in Charlerston County, S.C) showing that "large Carolina bays overlay infilled river channels (incisions that were refilled during a marine transgression)"?

It would be great to have this information for my on-going Carolina bay study.

Am I correct that this work (paper, presentation, data?) is evidence confounding to the recent and simultaneous origin of bays as some propose. How so? If I may, what is the relevance of infilled river channels and marine transgressions?

I am not geologist but do not understand.

Perhaps reading the paper can help. Thanks to you, and FGS, for posting.

[ForGod'sSake]

Thanks to you, and FGS, for posting.

You're welcome. It is an interesting subject. The creation of the bays tends to bring out peripheral subjects also. For example, would you think an exploding comet or other intruder might produce an electrical disturbance, similar to an EMP, in the......force??? Never occurred to me before, but then I haven't really studied ET encounters that much.

[Renfield]

I can't remember off the top of my head. Someone did a transect of deep borings across either Big Hellhole Bay or Little Hellhole Bay in Charleston County and discovered the infilled river valley. It might have been Ray Daniels. I'd suggest contacting the South Carolina Geological Society to see if someone there remembers the paper. If Ray Daniels is still alive (he'd be close to 90 now), he'd know for certain, but I don't have an address for him. If you contact the Agronomy Department at N.C. State University, you might get an e-mail address for Ray Daniels or Ehrling Gamble. In the mean time, if you have access to archives of the journal Southeastern Geology, you should review every paper written by Daniels and Gamble that was published in that journal. Those two are the preeminent authorities on coastal stratigraphy of the Carolinas.