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The Beginning
Carolina Bays - My Story
What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels,
silver, and gold 'precious,' and earth and soil 'base'? People who do
this ought to remember that if there were as great a scarcity of soil as
of jewels or precious metals, there would not be a prince who would not
spend a bushel of diamonds and rubies and a cartload of gold just to
have enough earth to plant a jasmine in a little pot, or to sow an
orange seed and watch it sprout, grow, and produce its handsome leaves,
its fragrant flowers, and fine fruit. It is scarcity and plenty that
make the vulgar take things to be precious or worthless; they call a
diamond very beautiful because it is like pure water, and then would not
exchange one for ten barrels of water.(Galileo Galilei,1564-1642)
Before I begin:
Let me state that this was in no way, on my part, a quest of scientific
discovery. I was just curious and wanted to see what was known about the
?Mysterious Carolina Bays. ?. I am calling it an adventure because it
has taken us to realms that we had not anticipated when we first began.
This page consists of the personal notes I took as our adventure
progressed.
This adventure started on the Saturday after Thanksgiving 2005,when my
brother Michael along with my niece Candace came for a Holiday visit. My
niece Lori (Candace?s sister) a Grad Student at a local University and I
meet up with them early Saturday morning for breakfast and to plan our
day. Lori had been having some car trouble so we all decided that we
would drop her car off to be worked on and we would head over to the
Fair Grounds and check out the Pottery Show that was running over the
weekend. After browsing around for a couple of hours we headed back to
Cary were we had left Lori?s car. There we had lunch and made the
decision to make a visit to one of the many local museums.
We were not sure which one to go to, so we just headed downtown, parked
and started walking. We ended up at The North Carolina Museum Of Natural
Science. I was browsing around by myself and came upon the
display?Carolina Bays? and was quite intrigued. Or should I say a little
be annoyed at myself for not being aware of their existence. I told
myself to be sure to look them up on the Internet to see if I could
learn more about them. A few minutes later I noticed Mike at the Bay?s
display, so I joined him to see what his reaction was. He was also quite
intrigued with the phenomena. We discussed it for a few minutes and then
went on to the next exhibit. I have to add here that the The North
Carolina Museum Of Natural Sciences is
a wonderful museum and that I would suggest anyone living in the area to
pay it a visit.
The following week, I did indeed begin looking for information
pertaining to the ?Bay?s? My search led me to various sites that had
information about the Bays and I soon learned that there are a number of
explanations as to their origin and that there is no consensus on what
was the cause of their formation.
It was sometime during the following week that I received a phone call
from Mike informing me that he also had been looking up information
pertaining to the Carolina Bays that we had learned about from our
museum visit.
From that point on we teamed up and continued our search for answers.
Mike being more the scientist went after the technical details and I
just searched for information pertaining to Carolina Bays,Vernal Pools,
kettles and Tundra Ponds, their soil make up and orientation,in an
effort to discover their origins.
Our adventure had only just begun when we realized that we were finding
many anomalies that we felt were related to the bays formations. One
being another North Carolina landform, The Goldsboro Ridge, which is
still described as an enigma.
The 1972 Carolina Geological Society and Atlantic Coastal Plain
Geological Association Field Trip Guide Book descriptions are given: The
Goldsboro ridge is a sand body 25 feet high that rises above the
Sunderland surface near Goldsboro, North Carolina. It consists of
unfossiliferous sands with a few intercalated clay beds.
From the description and viewing of the ridge using remote sensing, I
set out to see what else there was out there pertaining to anomaly
landforms consisting of raised sands and clay? This is where the mound,
earthworks ideas began to formulate.
Again as with the Bays my ignorance to the phenomena was present. A few
quick looks at google satellite maps and I came to the conclusion that
these mounds, like the Bays, were natural formations. Yes, mounds are
described by most as being built by the Native American Indians and
while I do believe that over the generations they were built upon and
used by local inhabitants for a number of different purposes, I do not
believe that the main mound structures were man made anymore than I
would think that the Carolina Bays were. During my research of the
earthwork phenomena I also learned that most of the Early American Forts
are described as earthworks.
By this time Mike had decided on his AEL ejecta theory, he was doing
splatter tests out in his barn and I was looking for data that would
connect mounds to bays. Well the splatter tests produced perfect ovals
with a consistent orientation. This is when Mike began his quest of
elliptical, oval, teardrop and pear shaped landforms. Sand and clay
being an element often associated with both mounds and bays I decided to
start with soils. Being a pottery lover and having recently made a trip
to the Seagrove I was aware that North Carolina has a natural abundance
of natural clay formations. Historical potteries in America were pretty
much located in Ohio, Pennslyvaina, New Jersey, and California, so I
located clay formations in and around the sites that were famous for
pottery. Let me add here that I was aware of the fact that locations
with abundant clay formations are found Globally, but at this point I
did limit myself to the Americas, because I was thinking "I only have
one lifetime" and knew I had to put a limit on locations. The limit did
not last for long.
Ok, so the clay search was far fetched, but I had to start some were and
it was a good start because in my discovery of the chemical make up of
clays I was able to expand my search to other elements. At this point I
began looking for anomalies pertaining to minerals.
1. Hugh copper ball in Michigan - no emeralds in Michigan - clay yes-
mounds -yes
2. Hugh emeralds in North Carolina-Copper yes - clay yes - bays -yes
3. Hugh gold finds in California - Clay yes - bays yes
Baja pinnacle was also considered because it has a wealth of gold and
copper.
Sand was found at all locations with no shortage of anomalies
Michael's idea: when you swing a golf club and scrape the ground, you
get a debit. We were sure that the Bays and the Mounds were the debits,
now we needed to find the scrape in the ground. After reviewing the data
we had collected we settled on the premiss that we were looking at
Cometary Ejecta. By location ejecta formations were found to have
similar style and orientation. In matching up a number of different
locations in which the oval footprint of ejecta was present we also
found a similarity in the mineral make-up.
Globally we were finding data that would be consistent with our theory.
We came to the conclusion that we needed to expand our research to other
continents where we were seeing strong historical relationships between
what we viewed as cometary ejecta, grazing events and great climactic
and cultural changes.
Our efforts and results: Perigee: Zero
/Jeanette/
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