Flamingo Bay - shocked quartz and inverted stratigraphy

Flamingo Bay in South Carolina contains shocked-fractured quartz indicating that the bay experienced high pressure during its formation. The sandy rim of the bay also shows inverted stratigraphy, which corresponds to an overturned flap and adds support for the impact origin of the Carolina Bays.

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

Python program for fitting ellipses to the Carolina Bays by the least squares method.

[Antonio_Zamora]

NOTE: At the 10:12 minute mark of the video, we can see that the base surface at the time of the YDB would be the 13.1 layer (this is about 12.8 ka or the "young" material), the 15.5 date corresponds to the "older material" excavated by the projectile and formed into an overturned flap. The layers from 5.0 to 11.5 are the "youngest material" that accumulated after the formation of the bay.

[bennichols]

You have been at the cutting edge for years. Doing great work.

[direbearcoat]

Another step closer towards a paradigm shift in this field of study...

[jollyroger]

This event was by far the most important in shaping modern life on North America, if not the world. Nothing else comes close, yet the lack of scientific interest is staggering. It must be kept in mind that not only were millions of great and small beasts snuffed out, millions of people also died.

[dave]

Such an impressive validation of the scientific method here. So cool that the establishment hypothesis needs to discard evidence that won't fit (the inverted stratigraphy), wheteas Antonio's hypothesis explains all data. Well done !

Maybe we're getting to the stage where some Great Lakes dredging might be useful to look for shocked quartz microspherules there at the appropriate layers...

[curtisnixon]

Very cool Antonio! I'm honoured to get a shout out. It's exciting to get an academic like Chris Moore appear to be getting onboard with the YD impact/s hypothesis.

[doomoo]

I couldn't believe it when I looked up the Carolina Bays on Google and the Wikipedia description said that they were made by a gradual process. That doesn't explain the mathematical orientation and shape, and it doesn't explain the overlap of the elliptical structures.

[candui-]

Excellent, as usual. Thank you for your amazing work Antonio. Note that Paleo Lake Bonneville shows an abrupt lake level increase at the YDB onset in the Gilbert shorelines.

[j.douglassizemore]

Wonderful work Tony. The mounting evidence for your theory becomes better everyday.

[patirving]

I admire that you are following the science...and I am so encouraged by these findings. I have never bought the wind hypothesis. I have also never bought that humans killed all of the mega fauna...at everywhere, all at once. Your hypothesis now has growing evidence!

[montewright]

The secondary impactor near the Saginaw impactor also suggest some rogue trajectories due to collisions of ice boulders in mid air!
Fun stuff, AZ!

[AustinKoleCarlisle]

We need to always remind people of the infamous quote by Malcolm LeCompte toward Graham Hancock, published in Graham's book "America Before" (2019):

"You were repeatedly warned that any association of Carolina Bay genesis linked to a discussion of the YDB impact event would likely be harmful to the progress of the YDIH research and to the reputations of its investigators."

[dr.froghopper]

I have been impressed with this idea since I first heard it quite a while back. It rocks!

[Raptorman]

When comet Schumacher-Levy 9 impacted Jupiter in 1994 it didn't created one impact site but many. The comet was broken up in previous close approach to Jupiter in July of 1992 and it was a train of fragments that impacted Jupiter two years later. I think it highly likely that a similar thing may have happened to produce the Carolina Bays and would, I think, account for the fact that the bays were not all pointing to the same source. One suspect location of impact is near Saginaw Michigan, but others appear to be west or north and possible east of there. Fragments impacting the ice sheet might have been small enough to not leave much evidence in the soils as the ice acted as ballistic armor. The ice, however, would have been shattered into blocks large and small and the pressure wave from the impact could have launched all those fragments preferentially in the direction the fragments were travelling relative to the surface of the Earth.

[AustinKoleCarlisle]

there seems to be another impact site a couple hundred miles north of the Great Lakes, a large number of bays in the Mid-Atlantic and Long Island orient to this site. some people want to claim this only means there were multiple impacts separated over vast amounts of time. but, in the Mid-Atlantic, there are bays orienting to this impact site located overtop bays orienting to the presumed impact site at the Great Lakes, and conversely, there are bays orienting to this other site located underneath bays orienting to the Great Lakes. this indicates that these cosmic impacts were simultaneous from the respective ejecta curtains intermixing during emplacement. we can deduce there MUST have been ice at the great lakes impact site when these cosmic impacts took place in order for the secondary impact features (carolina bays) to inconsistently overlap with each other. combine this with the fact that some bays are located where the ice sheet once covered during the last glacial maximum, and we have just contextually proven that multiple cosmic impacts must have occurred at the same time near the Younger Dryas boundary without ever excavating a single rim.

[AndrewEsh]

The ballistic trajectory needs to be adjusted for the rotation of the earth. With 8.2 minutes of travel and rotation, the center of Saginaw Bay moves to a point southwest of Reed City. That is about 2/3 of the way toward the west coast of the state.

[rogerdudra]

It's good to have evidence of catastrophe.

[tgriz]

You are killing it, Antonio! Whenever you post, I click. Keep pushing back against the silly and indefensible views of geologists who will not accept this well supported evidence. I'm reminded of the guy who first proposed the theory of the formation of the scablands in Washington State. He was laughed out of the room. Decades later, when his detractors were dead probably, it was mostly accepted. He got it wrong, there was not a single great flood event, but perhaps >40. Anyway, you are not alone.

[AustinKoleCarlisle]

do we know what minimum velocity a projectile has to hit the soil to create shocked quartz?

[Itsjustme-Justme]

It looks more and more like a giant cosmic shotgun round hit Earth back then. Some of the and I don't know if that helps or if it makes proving it harder.

Sceptics will continue to say there is no crater and they will argue that there isn't even a convergence point.

At least we now have a real life example of a bay that has plenty of impact proxies and we can take it as a size sample when searching more impact proxies. Everything bigger than it should have impact proxies too.