Is it possible that the Carolina Bays impacts were a Western Hemisphere effect of a comet hitting the Laurentide ice sheet?
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as are is Nebraska Rainwater basin which covers 4,200 sq miles
Studies have show that the angle of the debris that created these depression angles to a spot in Canada which would have been covered with 2 miles of ice at the time.
The debris likely consisted of huge chunks of ice tossed into the stratosphere and when hitting the ground, sent slivers streaking out from the point of impact killing everything in their paths.
There are various scientific studies about these events on line, should you care to look.
Not credited in this article is the theory that the comet debris [ believed to be the 100 mile wide periodic comet Encke ] impacts lasted over 100 years, and then again a 1,000 years later, bringing about the end of the Younger Dryas.
Also the black mat was created by the burning off of over 4% of the Earth’s vegetation at the time, during continent wide firestorms particularly in North America.
Thank you!
Very familiar with the Carolina Bays and Nebraska Rainwater Basins, thanks to SunkenCiv and others.
I will search out comet Encke, and see what I can learn.
So many events around the world could be explained by a comet breakup impacting around the Younger Dryas timeframe.