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Author : Henry Savage
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Mysterious Carolina Bays written by Henry Savage and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tom Poland
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 1643360574
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)
Download or read book Carolina Bays written by Tom Poland and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2019-12-23 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a strange beauty at the heart of every mystery, and the mystery of the Carolina Bays is an enigma that is lushly, uniquely beautiful. How did these odd geomorphological features come to be formed in the landscape in the first place, with their uniform shapes and matching elliptical orientations scattered across the Carolinas? There are many hypotheses but no definitive answers. Why are these inland phenomena even called "bays?" There is no clear answer to that either. The best definition of these features are "temporary, isolated freshwater wetlands," variously described as "high or flatwater ponds, wet weather lakes, or vernal pools," often identified more accurately as "pocosins," and they are ecological wonders, full of all manner of amphibians and reptiles, insects and birds, wildlife and plants—many of them exotic and rare. What also defines them is their uncommon beauty. Featuring more than one hundred-fifty color images, Carolina Bays takes you from an aerial perspective of these unusual bays to an on-the-ground safari, from frogs that croak and bark and boom to skinks that skim across the water as if on skis, and on to squawking herons to black-and-yellow polka-dotted caterpillars. There are growling alligators and four hundred-year-old trees and delicate yellow-fringed orchids. Life is found in astounding abundance. These wetlands are unique and almost immeasurably ancient; as is to be expected in the modern world, they are threatened by human intervention. Such diverse habitats and their rich, unmatched biodiversity call out for preservation and restoration. The bays are not only visited and documented by the authors; they make an impassioned case for respecting how important these singular formations are for the health of the planet. You could not find more able guides.
Author : Antonio Zamora
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ISBN 13 : 9780983652397
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)
Download or read book Solving the Mystery of the Carolina Bays written by Antonio Zamora and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-13 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The origin of the Carolina Bays presents a formidable puzzle for geologists and astronomers. The elliptical bays with sandy rims look like they were made by huge impacts, but they do not have the characteristic markers associated with extraterrestrial impacts. The dates of the terrain on which the bays are found span millennia, forcing scientists to conclude that the bays must have been made by the action of wind and water over the last 140,000 years. A new geometrical survey has found that the Carolina Bays are perfect ellipses with similar width-to-length ratios as the Nebraska rainwater basins. This book starts from the premise that if the Carolina Bays are conic sections, they must have originated from oblique conical cavities that were transformed by geological processes to their current form. Mathematical analysis following this line of reasoning provides clues supporting the idea that the Earth was hit during the ice age by an extraterrestrial object. The impact may have triggered the Younger Dryas cold event and caused the extinction of the North American megafauna and the Clovis culture. The Carolina Bays are the remodeled remains of oblique conical craters formed on viscous ground by secondary impacts of glacier ice boulders ejected from the primary impact site.
Author : Michael Tuomey
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)
Download or read book Report on the Geology of South Carolina written by Michael Tuomey and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David C. Terry
Publisher : Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1598582410
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)
Download or read book Carolina Bays written by David C. Terry and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2006-10 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carolina Bays is an action/mystery adventure in which Rick Parker, a freelance investigator, gets caught up into an investigation that he is not sure how to solve. His persistence in the truth leads him from one mystery to another while endangering his family and friends. Although Carolina Bays is fictional, the author uses real places and events to justify the plot. The mysteries of the more than 500,000 bays scattered across the Mid-Atlantic states have been documented and studied for centuries. The author, David C Terry was born in Jacksonville, North Carolina where he lived until attending college in South Carolina. After graduation, he served four years in the United States Coast Guard. He is married to Charlene and lives in Jacksonville, NC. They have one daughter, Kimberley and three sons, Brian, Christian and Mark. Carolina Bays is the third book written by the author. His other books are: The Vortex A Gift From Afar David C. Terry
Author : Thomas M. Poland
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ISBN 13 : 9781643360560
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)
Download or read book Carolina Bays written by Thomas M. Poland and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We all love a good mystery. We are driven by primal instinct to ask why, how, where, and myriad other questions aimed at solving the mysteries that both plague and enrich our lives. Carolina bays are the embodiment of a good mystery. Since their initial description in 1848, when South Carolina State Geologist Michael Tuomey noted their unique shape and orientation, myriad scientists have been fascinated by these features. Tuomey's work cracked the door open to the mystery of Carolina bays, but the advent of aerial photography in the 1930s blew the door off entirely. Since their early discovery and description, they have both intrigued and bewildered us. In fact many early descriptions labeled them "mysterious Carolina bays," leaving no doubt that our understanding of these phenomena was greatly limited. Humans encountered and began describing Carolina bays long before their formal discovery. Native Americans made camps along the sandy rims and edges of them. Early explorers and naturalists mentioned them in their writings, giving them their first "unofficial" name: pocosin. The word pocosin derives from an Algonquin word meaning "swamp on a hill"-and there the mystery begins. The early explorers of our country were accustomed to swamps along rivers, streams, large lakes, and coastal tidelands. Finding a swamp while crossing great stretches of upland was something quite different. No one seems to be sure who originally coined the term "Carolina Bay," but it may have been the early naturalist John Lawson, who in the 1700s noted the abundance of bay trees found in these "swamps on a hill." So even the name, which many associate with an embayment of some sort, is a bit mysterious and may originally have had nothing to do with the embayment or impoundment of water. It wasn't until the advent of aerial photography in the 1930s that the extent of the real mystery associated with Carolina bays became obvious. Yes, we had read the descriptions of Carolina bays offered by Tuomey and other early researchers, but seeing is believing. Early aerial photos, many from the coast of South Carolina, revealed both great and small elliptical and oval-shaped features spread across the landscape. And as if to enrich the mystery further, these ellipses and ovals all pointed in the same direction: technically speaking, their long axes were all aligned in a northwest-southeast direction. Some of these features had sandy rims outlining their circumference; some did not. Some appeared to overlap other bays, as if they were stacked one upon another. There it was: visual proof that the mysterious Carolina bays were real"--
Author : Rebecca R. Sharitz
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Ecology of Southeastern Shrub Bogs (pocosins) and Carolina Bays written by Rebecca R. Sharitz and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Wythe Cooke
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)
Download or read book Carolina Bays and the Shapes of Eddies written by Charles Wythe Cooke and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)
Download or read book Carolina Bays Parkway (better Known as Grand Strand), Horry County, Georgetown County written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Antonio Zamora
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ISBN 13 : 9780983652373
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)
Download or read book Killer Comet written by Antonio Zamora and published by . This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Carolina Bays have posed a mystery since their discovery in the 1930's. They look like they were made by impacts, but they were not created by impacts of extraterrestrial bodies. Solving the puzzle of how the bays formed provides clues that can be used to confirm that the Earth was hit by a comet 12,900 years ago. The Glacier Ice Impact Hypothesis and the evidence provided by the Carolina Bays clarifies how the large animals that lived in North America and the Clovis people who hunted them died. The whole extinction event took place in less than ten minutes. The Younger Dryas cooling period that followed could have been triggered by the material ejected above the atmosphere by the comet impact.
