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Carolina Bays

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Carolina Bays [‚kar·ə′lī·nə ′bāz]
(geography)
Shallow, marshy, often ovate depressions on the coastal plain of the mideastern and southeastern United States of unknown origin.


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quot; (4) It would also appear they may have been part of the Poverty Point group which reported to or was part of the site near Cuba that was at the mouth of the Mississippi before the Carolina Bays Meteor struck Bimini and the US Eastern seaboard.
The long axes of the great majority of the Carolina Bays point toward locations near the Great Lakes and in Canada--a hint that the extraterrestrial object disintegrated over those locales, says Howard.
Humphries and Edgerton go from the barrier islands to maritime forests, to salt marshes, to cypress sloughs, to Carolina bays in their love affair with North Carolina.
 
 
 
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