Ritual Impact Basin in Tulsa, Oklahoma

A well-preserved elliptical impact basin in Tulsa Oklahoma shows signs of having been recognized as an unusual structure. A mound has been erected all around the ellipse and lines intersecting at a 60 degree angle have been carved on the ground pointing toward the southwest. The elliptical feature should be called the Tulsa Impact Basin to identify its location and mode of origin.

Carolina Bay Survey. LiDAR Visualization Tool using Google Earth by Michael Davias

The Neglected Carolina Bays: Ubiquitous Geological Evidence of a Cataclysm.

[eb]

great video again. I never knew the Tulsa seal had an ellipse. What a funny coincidence! A small team of archaeologists are doing background research right now to determine if is a known and recorded site. The director of the Oxley Nature Center is coordinating with the city of Tulsa and gun club for a site visit. I am trying to track down some surveying equipment for the site visit. Concerningly the gun club is doing a large scale grading project nearby. I hope they don't have plans to level the site. We are working to find out more information about the grading project. I highly encourage everyone to try the lidar viewing tool made by M. Davis. it really works great. you never know what you may find in your own back yard.

[ofcourseofcoursebutmaybe]

wow just discovered your channel, absolutely wonderful to follow! thanks for sharing!

[waccamawn]

Excellent video Tony! What a cool addition to the many mysteries of the North American Elliptical Impact Basins.

[wakeUPdummies]

I am in Tulsa. I love hunting for arrowheads. You just gave me my next spot to explore. Thanks for the content.

[stevenwarner]

Antonio you are a hero. So here is my "two cents"... Again ~~~. My metaphor for the whole event: (Huge chunks of ice flying into space and returning in a pattern) is all about the limestone crust and flexibility of the North American sub terrain. The two or three kilometers of ice that was displaced actually may have cushioned the blow of the original object(s). The Michigan Basin, Saginaw Bay, the encircling Niagara Escarpment, the shape of Lake Huron ~ the "Impact Basins" ~ who knows what can correlate to this event? (12, 900 years ago). And for the Earth in a bigger sense. So my ballistic metaphor is like a Basketball being hit with a shotgun that's about 10 feet away. The Earth got lucky with this one. And Tulsa Oklahoma and the gun club as well... ~~~ Just imagine.

[stevechelt]

If you open Google Earth, go to this spot and click the small 'Historical Imagery' icon in the top tool bar (next to the sun icon) you can step back through earlier satellite images of this basin. The image from 1/2019 is very clear with winter raking light, you can clearly see the double raised banks. Also, the image from 3/2018 shows the converging lines at the west end well. The images from 3/2010 and 2/1995 are also worth looking at.

[SJR_Media_Group]

The Tulsa Bay also shows up in USGS Topo 1:24000 as a white ellipse surrounded by green at 1 inch = 300 meters zoom. I can't see it in any other mapping tool. It is hidden in Aerial view.

[dave]

Wonderful discovery! I'm also glad you did the map with the line back to Saginaw Bay. It makes it easier for people to accept your hypothesis.

[curtisnixon]

Fascinating example of an impact basin Antonio.

[OspreyFlyer]

Been to an impact basin and didn't know it. Thanks for posting! 👍

[dl]

Terrific discovery. Every day brings the event into closer focus. Cheers.

[SJR_Media_Group]

The name 'Carolina Bays' is a carry over from earlier times. USGS uses the term 'Bays' and locals have called them 'Bays'. Not sure reason or back story. Original research prompted by aerial photos from the 30's label them 'Carolina Bays' because they were located in the Carolina's.

I like your new term better, 'Younger Drier Secondary Impact Basins' a bit long, but is fits all the bays found, approximate dates, impacts are secondary to main impact, basins due to size.

We always look forward to new information as it comes out. There was a science show on YouTube recently. They were explaining the Bays. They only talked about wind and water. I posted comment about post impact cause. Got static from a few, but they had never seen your work. I gave them links.

[DouggieDinosaur]

Just another day on Antonio Zamora's epic YouTube channel !! ^_^

[amberyooper]

If the ice boulder had a flight time of 9 minutes to impact, I have to wonder how the earth's rotation would impact the alignment of the crater. That might account for some of the alignment differences between the Carolina bays and the Nebraska rainwater basins and the Tulsa basin.

[DarwinianUniversal]

This is very interesting. the common alignment of the bays is more than suggestive. And there are still those who are dismissive of this prospect. Unbelievable. Theyre not detectives are they!

[Ampelmannchen]

It would be interesting if an ancient culture observed the impact and chose to enhance the site for spiritual reasons. It may not be likely, but without evidence who would really know?

[Kadath_Gaming]

It's likely that the date of the architectural fossilisation of the impact feature would have been closer to the date of its creation, because of the direct preservation of the evidence of the cataclysmic event in the subsequent monument. Antonio, you may have stumbled on the American Gobekli Tepe...

[Itsjustme-Justme]

Good morning Mr. Zamora
I just found a short article in the online version of the German Spektrum magazine about a new paper by Thomas Kenkmann et al. They identified a large secondary impact crater field in Wyoming. Its elliptical craters do not contain meteorite fragments but shock effects confirm that they must be impact structures.
To prevent my comment from being deleted, I will not post the link. The paper is named "Secondary cratering on Earth: The Wyoming impact crater field", published in GSA Bulletin Feb.11th 2022.

Kenkmann et al measured 31 elliptical impact structures in sandstone bedrock in Wyoming, dated 280 m.y. old, with more than 60 more structures still awaiting confirmation. They calculated trajectories, impact speeds (700-1000 m/s), the proposed position and size (55-65 km) of the still unknown(!) primary crater (somewhre in the northern Denver basin, 150-200km away from the secondary impacts) and the proposed size of the primary impactor (2 - 2, 7 km radius).
They even found a gravity anomaly in the proposed area of the primary impact. Further research to confirm the primary impact crater location is subject to future work.

All of this looks very much like a smaller and much older brother of the Carolina Bays.

Kenkmann et all write that the secondary impact field confirmed by them was the first of its kind on a planet with dense atmosphere. I wonder if they don't know about the Carolina Bays or don't believe in their cosmic origin. No matter what they think about the Carolina Bays, the independent confirmation of secondary impact fields on Earth being physically possible dramatically increases the probability that the Carolina Bays are secondary impacts too.

[MrFmiller]

I have speculated previously that it would stand to reason that humans in antiquity would recognize “impact basins” and interpret them in various ways. In this case it would appear that someone attempted to determine the alignment for some association or other. They went to a lot of effort to do so.

[allenvaughan]

This is exactly what makes the internet and Youtube useful in science.