Fascinating analysis, a ton of work went into this. Really nice! I wonder if the reason for progressively larger bays as we progress to sea level is that closer to sea level, smaller bays have since disappeared, eroded away, melted into the soils due to the higher water table?
Hi Thomas. I think you're on the right track. It seems no matter how one looks at the Carolina Bays, there are unexplained mysteries. Thanks for your comment.
Awesome find of the average bay size with elevation. Im wondering if the density has mostly to do with the ballistic geometry and less with soils in this part of the country. Nice work again
Awesome analysis! This really needs to be converted into a scientific journal article. Maybe the new year will allow more time for these endeavors. Happy New Year!
@ thanks I’ve been working on this hypothesis for a wile. Dabblers den calls me squirting water bill because he doesn’t like the fact their could be other types of erosion. It eliminates his hypothesis. Good luck getting threw that gate.
To be clear chris didn’t even know that a dam raises the water table below the dam not just above the dam. I think the Appalachian mountains were effectively a dam. Pressurizing the entire east coast water tables and aquifers both fully recharged just after meltwater pulse 1 A but before the ice bombardment from what I think of as the largest plasma storm humans ever seen. Then there was multiple meltwaters after that. It would do the same thing at the barrier islands because the water would find POLR. Water going east would have had relief I think just around that Pleistocene shelf area washing away those bays
@ they do drill deep for wells in the high country, there are still some natural springs YES. But they recharge now by rain. Any rain during Inundation would have been sheet floods effectively creating things like the Delmarva peninsula. Did you know 40% of meltwater went into the fractured bedrock aquifers?? Chris seem to think the mountains range doesn’t have water pressure beneath. Check out the cave systems in amarica and there cluster formations all from pressurized water from beneath
Fascinating analysis, a ton of work went into this. Really nice! I wonder if the reason for progressively larger bays as we progress to sea level is that closer to sea level, smaller bays have since disappeared, eroded away, melted into the soils due to the higher water table?
Hi Thomas. I think you're on the right track. It seems no matter how one looks at the Carolina Bays, there are unexplained mysteries. Thanks for your comment.
Awesome find of the average bay size with elevation. Im wondering if the density has mostly to do with the ballistic geometry and less with soils in this part of the country. Nice work again
It is an interesting thing with the elevations and bay sizes. Just the millionth thing about the carolina bays that are perplexing. Happy New Year!!
Awesome analysis! This really needs to be converted into a scientific journal article. Maybe the new year will allow more time for these endeavors. Happy New Year!
I hope so!
Amazing analysis .!!! You should consider pressurized water tables for erosion at the lower elevations. Keep at it. 🦾🎯
Great idea
@ thanks I’ve been working on this hypothesis for a wile. Dabblers den calls me squirting water bill because he doesn’t like the fact their could be other types of erosion. It eliminates his hypothesis. Good luck getting threw that gate.
To be clear chris didn’t even know that a dam raises the water table below the dam not just above the dam. I think the Appalachian mountains were effectively a dam. Pressurizing the entire east coast water tables and aquifers both fully recharged just after meltwater pulse 1 A but before the ice bombardment from what I think of as the largest plasma storm humans ever seen. Then there was multiple meltwaters after that. It would do the same thing at the barrier islands because the water would find POLR. Water going east would have had relief I think just around that Pleistocene shelf area washing away those bays
Interesting idea on the pressurized water. Do you know if there are many artesian springs in eastern NC today?
@ they do drill deep for wells in the high country, there are still some natural springs YES. But they recharge now by rain. Any rain during Inundation would have been sheet floods effectively creating things like the Delmarva peninsula. Did you know 40% of meltwater went into the fractured bedrock aquifers?? Chris seem to think the mountains range doesn’t have water pressure beneath. Check out the cave systems in amarica and there cluster formations all from pressurized water from beneath