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To: SunkenCiv

In re the Carolina Bays: how about smacking a small comet into an ice sheet? The splattered ejecta would melt after it made a dent...and there would be no meteorite to find.


75 posted on 03/09/2013 8:40:01 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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To: Smokin' Joe

A 150-foot rock dug the Barringer Crater (a.k.a. Meteor Crater) and in the process completely disintegrated -- airbursts also do damage though. This book discusses the Carolina Bays along with similar ejecta crater fields in other parts of North America:

The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes: Flood, Fire, and Famine in the History of Civilization The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes:
Flood, Fire, and Famine
in the History of Civilization

by Richard Firestone,
Allen West, and
Simon Warwick-Smith


76 posted on 03/09/2013 9:03:36 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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